[R] R-question

[jim holtman]

Let's assume that you are running on a system with 2GB of memory.  All
of R's data is held in memory and I would suggest that no single
object have more that 25% of memory.  That would suggest that 500MB
for a single object would be a reasonable limit.  If you are working
with something like 2M rows of numeric data (each element takes 8
bytes), then you should be able to handle about 32 columns in the
matrix without much trouble.  If you have a 64-bit version of R, then
the limit is how much you want to spend on memory.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:12 AM, thabet chelligue
<chelliguethabet at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  I’m a french student in Master level “Statistics and Econometrics” . Now I’m in training for a marketing firm.
>
>  I don’t find the information about the capacity of R .
>
>  Can you tell me how much lignes and colones can R manipulates?
>
>  Can I work with a data of 2 milions lignes?
>
> When I asked M.Maechler , he advices me to ask you about this.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:03:02 +0100
>> Subject: Re: Hello
>> From: mmaechler at gmail.com
>> To: chelliguethabet at hotmail.com
>>
>> Dear M.  Thabet Chelligue,
>>
>> please do ask such questions on one of the public R mailing lists;
>> typically 'R-help' is perfect.
>> --> http://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 17:05, thabet chelligue
>> <chelliguethabet at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I’m a french student in Master level “Statistics and Econometrics” . Now I’m
>> > in training for a marketing firm.
>> >
>> > I don’t find the information about the capacity of R .
>> >
>> > Can you respond me how much lignes and colones can R manipulates?
>> >
>> > Can I work with a data of 2 milions lignes?
>> >
>> > Thank you .
>> >
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