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I see you are extremely angry at TI for some reason. <br>
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Well, first and foremost : I do not use R at TI, I use it for <br>
my master thesis project at Tel-Aviv University. I also happen <br>
to be a TI employee, but I don't think it matters. Maybe I should <br>
use my University mail account while posting such questions, but<br>
I just never encountered such kind of hostility before.<br>
<br>
As far as I know, nobody at TI uses R, so I don't think I can <br>
convince the TI management to donate anything to R project.<br>
<br>
I do have enough memory (I hope 512M is enough), the question<br>
actually was : is there a limit (hard or soft, by soft meaning that <br>
the performance degrades significantly after object size reachs some limit)<br>
on objct size in R. If there is not (meaning it can handle large objects
and <br>
it scales well when object sizes increase) - then I'm apparently doing<br>
something wrong and I should revist my code. If not - I should switch to
S-plus.<br>
<br>
P.S. you can reply to my university account (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:demiurg@tau.ac.il">demiurg@tau.ac.il</a>) if it makes
<br>
you happier.<br>
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Thanks for your help.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk">ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk</a> wrote:<br>
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cite="midPine.LNX.4.31.0206152104020.31355-100000@gannet.stats">
<pre wrap="">On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Sirotkin, Alexander wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I was trying to import a very large data table to R using RODBC. By
large meaning a table of 600 real
numbers and 10000 rows. It failed saying that it reached a memory limit.
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Which is what? Buy some more memory: I am sure TI can afford it!
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<pre wrap="">This is extremely weird
because S-Plus can import the same table, and it does this quite fast.
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Why is it `extremely wierd'? Why do you expect user-contributed software
(which is not even in the main CRAN section) for a free package to be as
memory-efficient as a commercial package?
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<pre wrap="">Are there any limitations on objects size in current implementation of R ?
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Yes, around 2Gb for each object (increased in the current R-devel).
We would welcome contributions of improvements to RODBC or funds to
develop it (and I note that you are posting from a large commercial
concern).
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