[R] data usage

[Edwin Leuven]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Is the ca. 100MB the size of the .dta file, or the size of the data
> when loaded into Stata?  Or is there not a difference? 

i think it is about the same. 

info on the processes using top to get an idea of memory use of R vs 
Stata using the same data:

COMMAND PRI  NI  SIZE  TRS  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU   TIME CPU 
R.bin   25    0  262M  760 262M  1880 S     0.0   0:28   0 
Stata   39   19  106M  620 106M  1192 S N   0.0   0:00   0 

> Have you
> checked the size of the .rda file created as Doug had suggested?  
> I'd be curious to see what that is...

it is 33,956,125

edwin