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Subject:    Re: [R] R software on 64bit - Intel Xeon processor
From:       Martyn Plummer <plummer () iarc ! fr>
Date:       2005-11-30 17:03:58
Message-ID: 1133370238.3553.5.camel () seurat
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Many packages in Fedora Extras, including R, have been recompiled forCentOS (a RHEL \
clone). You can find them here: http://centos.karan.org/
They should be compatible with RHEL, but of course your mileage mayvary.
Martyn
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:43 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> You don't seem to know \
your OS spec, so how can we guess?> You chip can run various different OSes.  RH \
claim to have> RHEL4 for AMD64/EM64T, but not `for 64bit'.> > Use uname -a.  If it \
mentions ix86 (for x=3,4,5,6 or perhaps 7) use that > RPM.  I expect it will mention \
x86_64.  In that case you may need to > install from the sources.  One way to do so \
is to install the SRPM, > rpmbuild that and then install it.  But building from the \
source tarball > is also a cinch, and will avoid RH's broken blas library (if you \
have that > installed).  The other advantage is that you can install the current > \
R-patched rather than R-2.2.0 and benefit from all the patches.> > Of course, it is \
possible that RedHat has an RPM (they do for FC3 and> FC4), so have you checked their \
repositories?> > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Srinivas Iyyer wrote:> > > Dear Group,> > I \
have a machine which has a 64bit Intel® Xeon™> > Processor 3.00GHz, 2MB L2 Cache \
6T302N - [ 221-7984 ]> > processor.> > (Dell Precision Workstation 670n Intel® Xeon™> \
> Processor)> >> > The OS is RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4 (for> > 64bit).> >> > \
> I went to /bin/linux/redhat/el4/i386 on CRAN FTP site.> > I have no clue if any of \
> these RPMs are suitable for> > this machines configuration.> >> > Could any one \
> point me to an appropriate RPM that I> > can download and install it on this \
> machine.> > -- > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> Professor \
> of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> University of Oxford,   \
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