From andy_liaw at merck.com  Sat Jan 21 04:27:45 2006
From: andy_liaw at merck.com (Liaw, Andy)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:27:45 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.
Message-ID: <39B6DDB9048D0F4DAD42CB26AAFF0AFAFED732@usctmx1106.merck.com>

From: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
> 
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > Quite a while back we set the goal of running R in 16Mb 
> RAM, as people (I 
> > think Kjetil) had teaching labs that small.
> 
> It's a while since I actually har R used on such small 
> machines, I think
> 64 MB is quite acceptable now.
> 
> Kjetil
> 
> > 
> > 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?

I sure don't, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days someone
figures out how to get R to run on a video card...  (I recall that there was
a tutorial session at some datamining conference last year that showed
people how to use the GPU for numerical computation, so this may not be too
far fetched.)

Andy



[Rd] Minumum memory requirements to run R.
Liaw, Andy