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Message-ID: <508145ED.8070107@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-10-19T12:22:05Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Which packages are incompatible with 64-bit R?
In-Reply-To: <36C6D387F85745EFBD87290487BA52C5@shenkin.org>

On 19/10/2012 8:10 AM, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Despite the pain of migrating to 64-bit R (I have to install 64-bit Office also due to RODBC), I'm considering making the leap due to memory issues. Is there any place that lists packages that are 64-bit incompatible? Or, will I just have to march through all my packages and check them one-by-one on CRAN?

An approximation to that is to call 
available.packages(type="win.binary") on both versions, and compare the 
lists.  Packages may fail to appear for reasons other than 
incompatibility, but incompatible packages won't be available in binary 
versions.

Duncan Murdoch