From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Mar 11 22:03:45 2009
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:03:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] Building R for Vistax64
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Look in MkRules and the rw-FAQ. You can easily build R under Mingw64, 
but no one has reported making it run -- and several have reported 
failures.

Commercail vendors have built 64-bit R under other Windwos compilers.

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Sim, Fraser wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I have successfully built from source the 32-bit version of R on my
> Vista 64-bit box. I was hoping to graduate to a 64-bit version so I
> could analyze some larger data sets. I have 8gb RAM installed.
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> I downloaded the latest 64-bit versions of Perl and MinGW but wasn't
> sure how to edit the source code to have it build using the 64-bit
> versions. I did change my PATH variable to point to the bin directories
> of the 64-bit Perl and MinGW packages.
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> Any pointers would be very helpful.
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> Thanks,
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> Fraser
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> Fraser Sim, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery
> University of Rochester
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[Rd] Building R for Vistax64
Prof Brian Ripley