<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Another alternative is purchasing solaris hardware, since VirtualBox only runs x86. Ebay does have some for auction at a reasonable price.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://tinyurl.com/sunblade-on-ebay" class="">http://tinyurl.com/sunblade-on-ebay</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do not know if it includes disks, but they aren’t all that expensive.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would volunteer to do this myself, but my spouse is already hostile to having equipment around that is “not used”. Sorry.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:40 AM, JJ Allaire <<a href="mailto:jj.allaire@gmail.com" class="">jj.allaire@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I am happy to share my experience with Solaris. I have been meaning to<br class="">write a step-by-step guide to setting up a Solaris testing platform for<br class="">R on a VirtualBox VM, so this gives me some impetus to write it.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">That would be excellent! I got as far as getting R running on a<br class="">VirtualBox but got hung up on compiler configuration such that was<br class="">unable to build packages that included native code.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Rcpp-devel mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org" class="">Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a><br class="">https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>