Message-ID: <50814CC7.6010708@ufl.edu>
Date: 2012-10-19T12:51:19Z
From: Alexander Shenkin
Subject: Which packages are incompatible with 64-bit R?
In-Reply-To: <508145ED.8070107@gmail.com>
Thanks Duncan. Here's what I come up with. Anything obviously missing?
I'd think there'd be more incompatibilities than just these few...
In 32-bit: > pkgs32 = available.packages(type="win.binary")
In 64-bit: > pkgs64 = available.packages(type="win.binary")
> pkgnames32 = pkgs32[,"Package"]
> pkgnames64 = pkgs64[,"Package"]
> as.character(pkgnames32[which(is.na(match(pkgnames32, pkgnames64)))])
[1] "RSVGTipsDevice" "RSvgDevice" "eco" "rcqp"
"sparsenet" "hdf5"
On 10/19/2012 8:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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