R on Large Data Sets (again)
On 2009.11.29 14:24:40, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Windows 64-bit can certainly handle large memory spaces, but unless something has changed recently it my understanding Revolution Computing's 64-bit is the only 64-bit version of R available for Windows (due to the unavailability of adequate open source compilers for 64-bit Windows). So 64-bit R will need to be Revolution's solution or a non-Windows platform.
Or use a commercial Windows compiler.
It appears that GNU does have a project that has had some success at compiling 64 bit Windows applications: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/
Well, some interesed people have a project to port GCC and binutils: as far as I am aware that is not an official GNU project.
Not sure if all of the pieces are there for an R build, though.
You are welcome to show us how to do it (on the R-devel list): several people have spent man months attempting this (including submitting many patches to that project), and the rw-FAQ did tell you do so in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#How-can-I-compile-R-from-source_003f
Not a chance :) I got away from Windows 10 years ago for exactly these reasons. I was just trying help point a poor guy in the right direction.
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