[R] About installing R package

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.08.2010 17:48, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> CPU - AMD X4 955
> Onboard RAM - 8G
>
> I'm prepared to learn R and am going to install R package on 64 bit Windows
> running as VM (guest) on Oracle VituralBox.  Please advise
>
> 1) I have 64 bit Win7 and Win Server 2008 R2 running as VM on VirtualBox.  Which
> version of Windows will be more suitable for running R?  Win7 Or Win Server 2008
> R2 ?


Any of those.


> 2) What will be the min physical RAM to be assigned to the OS for running R?

Well, for R itself just few Mb, but if you want to analyse a huge data 
up to as much as your have RAM installed...


> 3) Additionally I'm also prepared install another R on a VM running 64 bit
> Ubuntu 10.04.  Is there any min physical RAM requirement? Of Debian 5.04 and
> Ubuntu 10.04 which of them will be more suitable for running R?

Any suitable, the size of RAM depends on your data.

Uwe Ligges


>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
>
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