[R] R and file size

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Greg Blevins wrote:

> I will be involved with an analysis based on a file that will be roughly 25 meg.  Assuming I have enough memory, is their any limitations to using R on a file this large.

That's a small file!

Seriously, people work on datasets of 100Mb or so in 1Gb (or even 512Mb)
machines.  However, some care is needed to select a good way to read the
data in (if read.table, do follow the advice on the help page), and it
would probably be better to use a database interface (see the Data
Import/Export manual).

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