[R] Will This Computer Run 64 bit Ubuntu/R?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:38:01PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> The Pemtium D 940 supports EMT64 according to
>> http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1988 (I googled it).
>>
>> That is the key: EMT64 is Intel's name for x86_64 and so your box should
>> run x86_64 Linux which I believe Debian/Ubuntu refer to as 'amd64' (which
>> understandably Intel does not favour and GNU configure does not use on
>> Linux).
>>
>> R compiles readily on x86_64 Linux (it is our main development platform)
>> so in so far as there is 'the 64 bit linux version of R' (not really), it
>> will run.  More precisely you should be able to compile R from the sources
>> and also install an amd64 Ubuntu package for R.
>
> I'd rather just grab current prebuild binaries from any CRAN mirror, eg
>
> 	http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>
> as Vincent and Michael do a really excellent job rebuilding my Debian
> packages for Ubuntu x86 and amd64, typically within a day. There are a
> few other goodies there too, see the README in the aforementioned
> directory.

That is what I meant by 'an amd64 Ubuntu package for R'.

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