[R] Looking for recommendations for optimal memory settings

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Busch, Joe wrote:

> We have a Windows 2000 operating system and I need to configure the
> workstations.  What are your recommendations for users with very large data
> sets (300Mb)?  The systems are Dell GX240s with 512 Mbs of Ram.  What
> command line or environment variables work best?

The default ones.  Just add another 1.5Gb of RAM and then consider
using --max-mem-size, the only setting that will make any real difference.
(The next minor version of R, probably 1.9.0, will make better use of 2Gb 
under Windows than the current one, so you may want to compile up 
pre-releases of that.)

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