[R] R for Windows 32-bit mode versus 64-bit mode

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

Thanks.

-Roy M.
On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 06/02/2013 22:47, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal wrote:
>> Hi All:
>> 
>> We are developing (actually updating) a piece of code that runs in
>> R.
> Due to some limitations of some the libraries we use, at the present
> time we would be limited to the 32-bit version of R on Windows. Does
> anyone have a feel (or even real knowledge) if most people these days
> run R on Windows in 32-bit or 64-bit mode? This would affect some
> development decisions.
> 
> 'Most people' is maybe not the right question.
> 
> A very high proportion of serious users run 64-bit Windows and 64-bit R on that. But there are still many old computer labs in Universities all over the world used by very many students, and companies still using XP (which is 32-bit only: the so-called 64-bit XP was internally Server 2003).
> 
> OTOH, the standard install has both 32- and 64-bit versions of R on 64-bit Windows so almost all users would have the option to start 32-bit R.
> 
> As an aside, the Mac situation is changing: OS X has been a 64-bit OS for ca 5 years now and it is likely that CRAN binaries for 3.0.0 will be 64-bit only there.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> -Roy M.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov (Note new e-mail address)
voice: (831)-648-9029
fax: (831)-648-8440
www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected" 
"the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr.