[R] R on Large Data Sets (again)

[Jason Morgan]

On 2009.11.28 21:50:09, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
> > > - Is a Unix-like platform a better option than win-64? Again, would
> > > this solve my memory limitation problems?
> > 
> > Possibly, but Win64 should provide plenty of memory (I believe Windows 7
> > Ultimate can use up to 192 GB of memory). You just have to find the
> > system that can take that much... With Unix/Linux you can probably cut
> > back some overhead, and the memory management is most likely better, but
> > unless you need to go over 192GB of memory, you don't necessarily have
> > to move to a different platform.
> > 
> > ~Jason
> 
> 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.

It appears that GNU does have a project that has had some success at
compiling 64 bit Windows applications:

http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/

Not sure if all of the pieces are there for an R build, though.

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Jason W. Morgan
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