[R] Ask about large data set

[Magnus Torfason]

On 1/12/2010 8:29 PM, Yi Du wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is that okay to let R to read data set more than 10000 rows and
> use it to do some kernel density estimation? Thanks.
>
> Yi

Why don't you just try it and see? Nothing bad will happen - the 
absolute worst case scenario is that R will hang.

But I can tell you that reading 10000 rows should be a piece of cake on 
any decent computer. Different estimation techniques are different in 
terms of computational intensity. Trying it is the best approach. If you 
run into problems, you could come back with specific questions of 
optimization.

Best,
Magnus