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5 messages · Dirk Eddelbuettel, Jeffrey Arnold, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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R runs under CygWin now, so perhaps it could be done that way.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Jeffrey Arnold
<jeffrey.arnold at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Dirk Eddelbuettel
    

    

      
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On 13 September 2012 at 14:25, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

        
| R runs under CygWin now, so perhaps it could be done that way.

I would hasten to add that according to R Core, there is precisely one way to
use R on Windows: using MinGW.  

For the rest, you're on your own.  And on Windows I have never found that to
be a good starting position.

As for gputools: these are pretty compiler-dependent because of way Nvidia
wraps its stuff up, and I would be almost certain that on that particular OS
you are required to use the compiler by the same firm, which pretty much
precludes using R object code with it. Unless you are really detemined, and
really know the toolchain.

So in short, I'd stick to Linux if you want to work with GPUs from R.

Dirk


 
| On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Jeffrey Arnold

        
| <jeffrey.arnold at gmail.com> wrote:

        
| > Has anyone ported gputools to windows? Or installed one of the other gpu
| > packages (magma or OpenCL) on windows?
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| > Thanks, Jeff
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Yes, I know ... it shocked me when I saw R in CygWin myself. But that
means "someone" is "supporting" it. ;-)

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And the window seems to be closing on non-Ubuntu versions of Linux for
a variety of purposes. I recently had to make my tools "portable" -
i.e., find all the dependencies in openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and Mageia
repositories. It ain't pretty.

It seems at first glance it would be easy to automate, but once I
started looking into what's required to package some "simple" audio
software for Fedora, I was shocked at how many different things have
different names and different places between Ubuntu and Fedora. As far
as I can tell, only Fedora (and maybe RHEL) and Ubuntu/Debian have
*any* of the R library packages in their repositories.