[R] creating a database

[Moshe Olshansky]

If all your entries are double precision then you are
using 8 bytes per entry, so 20,000*n entries are just
160,000*n bytes, i.e. less than 160*n Kb. If your n is
100 you get 16 Mb which is not that much (especially
if you pre-allocate it only once). So just use the
matrix and don't worry!

--- dxc13 <dxc13 at health.state.ny.us> wrote:

> 
> useR's,
> 
> I am writing a program in which the input can be
> multidimensional.  As of
> now, to hold the input, I have created an n by m
> matrix where n is the
> number of observations and m is the number of
> variables.  The data that I
> could potentially use can contain well over 20,000
> observations.  
> 
> Can a simple matrix be used for this or would it be
> better and more
> efficient to create an external database to hold the
> data.  If so, should
> the database be created using C and how would I do
> this (seeing as that I
> have never programmed in C)?  
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you
> 
> Derek
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