[R] Limitations of R

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/06/2011 08:33 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
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> On 06.10.2011 16:49, Alaios wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I have a few binary files like 9Gb or even of 50Gb.

Hi Alaios --

Maybe you have a particular domain you are interested in (e.g., 
high-throughput sequence analysis) and there are packages (e.g., at 
http://bioconductor.org) that make it easier to work with this size and 
format of data.

Martin

>> I would like to ask you what are the known limits of the R for the
>> data processing part, I have a system with a lot of RAM (500Gb)
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> Really accessible from one core? Amazing.
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>> but I am not sure about the "internal" limitations of the R. How long
>> for example a vector can be?
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> See
> ?"Memory-limits"
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> Uwe Ligges
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>> Could you please inform me for these internal R limitations?
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>> I would like to thank you in advance for your help
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>> B.R
>> Alex
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