linux compile options (64-bit)
We find it equally strange that you posted this! The advice _is_ in the R-admin manual which the INSTALL file asks you to read if you have any questions. It covers using enhanced BLAS libraries. R builds out of the box on FC3, FC4 and Suse on AMD64. I use Goto's BLAS, but ATLAS can be used (except that building a shared version is tricky). Quite a few packages have been written in ways that stop them building on 64-bit platforms (and the maintainers have been informed but not fixed them).
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jacob Michaelson wrote:
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From: Jacob Michaelson <jjmichael at comcast.net> Date: August 1, 2005 8:51:58 PM MDT To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch I've been using R for a while under Mac OS X, which thanks to the R on OS X developers, is probably the best platform for learning R. I recently built a Linux box with a Pentium D processor, and am running an AMD64 port of Ubuntu with the SMP kernel. After setting up the basics on the box, I thought I'd install R as well. I've had a very hard time finding good documentation on some configure flags/options for compiling a 64-bit version of R on Linux. I thought this was very strange, considering Linux is apparently the R developer's platform of choice. Can anyone point me to some good build instructions for 64-bit R under Linux? Should I compile it against any additional libraries for better performance?
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