Which Linux OS on Athlon amd64, to comfortably run R?
Note that Ottorino has only 1GB of RAM installed, which makes a 64-bit version of R somewhat moot. See chapter 8 of http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html I would install a i386 version of R on x86_64 Linux unless I had 2Gb or more of RAM. I don't know how easily that works on Ubuntu these days, but I would try it.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Ljubomir J. Buturovic wrote:
Hi Ottorino, I have been using R on 64-bit Ubuntu for about a year without problems, both Intel and AMD CPUs. Installing and using several packages (e1071, svmpath, survival) also works. However, I had to install R from source: $ gunzip -c R-2.6.1.tar.gz | tar xvf - $ cd R-2.6.1 $ ./configure --enable-R-shlib; make; make pdf # make install; make install-pdf Notice that `make install' has to be run as root. I am using Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04), although I doubt that makes a difference. Hope this helps, Ljubomir 8rino-Luca Pantani writes:
Dear R-users. I eventually bought myself a new computer with the following characteristics: Processor AMD ATHLON 64 DUAL CORE 4000+ (socket AM2) Mother board ASR SK-AM2 2 Ram Corsair Value 1 GB DDR2 800 Mhz Hard Disk WESTERN DIGITAL 160 GB SATA2 8MB I'm a newcomer to the Linux world. I started using it (Ubuntu 7.10 at work and FC4 on laptop) on a regular basis on May. I must say I'm quite comfortable with it, even if I have to re-learn a lot of things. But this is not a problem, I will improve my knowledge with time. My main problem now, is that I installed Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on the new one amd64. To install R on it i followed the directions found here http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/index.php/Installing_R_on_Ubuntu but unfortunately it did not work. After reading some posts on the R-SIG-debian list, such as https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2007-October/000253.html I immediately realize that an amd64 is not the right processor to make life easy. Therefore I would like to know from you, how can I solve this problem: Should I install the i386 version of R ? Should I install another flavour of Linux ? Which one ? Fedora Core 7 ? Debian ? Thanks a lot, for any suggestion -- Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Universit? di Firenze Dip. Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta P.zle Cascine 28 50144 Firenze Italia Tel 39 055 3288 202 (348 lab) Fax 39 055 333 273 OLPantani at unifi.it http://www4.unifi.it/dssnp/
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