[R] >2GB dataset

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Absolutely no problem on 64-bit OSes with enough memory.  Many 32-bit OSes 
have problems with > 2Gb files.

Please do read the posting guide and tell us basic facts like which OS you 
are running on, so we don't have to speculate to answer your question.

Also, what you want to do with the dataset?   This matters crucially.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, apollo wong wrote:

> Hi, do any one have experience with loading dataset
> that is larger than 2GB into R. My organization is a
> SAS oriented shop and I'm in the process of switching
> it to R. One of the complain about R has always been
> it's inability to handle large dataset (>GB)
> efficiently. I would like some comments from someone
> with experience of working on >2GB dataset in R.

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