From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Jan 18 12:55:16 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:55:16 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601181149400.9400@gannet.stats>

Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb RAM, as people (I 
think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small.

Since then R has grown, and we has recently started to optimize R for 
speed rather than size.  I recently tested R-devel on my ancient Win98 
notebook with 64Mb RAM -- it ran but startup was rather slow on what I 
think is a 233MHz processor and very slow disc.

R still runs in 16Mb, but that is getting tight.  Does anyone have any 
need to run on a smaller machine than my 64Mb notebook?

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.
Prof Brian Ripley