[R] FW: Large datasets in R

[Marshall Feldman]

Well, SPSS used to claim that all its algorithms dealt with only one case at
a time and therefore that it could handle very large files. I suppose a
large correlation matrix could cause it problems.

	Marsh Feldmman

-----Original Message-----
From: Ritwik Sinha [mailto:ritwik.sinha at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:54 AM
To: Prof Brian Ripley
Cc: Marshall Feldman; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] FW: Large datasets in R

Hi,

I have a related question. How differently do other statistical
softwares handle large data?

The original post claims that 350 MB is fine on Stata. Some one
suggested S-Plus. I have heard people say that SAS can handle large
data sets. Why can others do it and R seem to have a problem? Don't
these softwares load the data onto RAM.

-- 
Ritwik Sinha
Graduate Student
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University

http://darwin.cwru.edu/~rsinha