my experience is that 100,000 shouldn't be a problem. of course, it also
depends on your computer configuration.

On 1/24/06, Gueorgui Kolev <joro.kolev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear R experts,
>
> Is it true that R generally cannot handle  medium sized data sets(a
> couple of hundreds of thousands observations) and threrefore large
> date set(couple of millions of observations)?
>
> I googled and I found lots of questions regarding this issue, but
> curiously there were no straightforward answers what can be done to
> make R capable of handling data.
>
> Is there sth inherent in the structure of R that makes it impossible
> to work with say 100 000observations and more? If it is so, is there
> any hope that R can be fixed in the future?
>
> My experience is rather limited---I tried to load a Stata data set of
> about 150000observations(which Stata handles instantly) using the
> library "foreign". After half an hour R was still "thinking" so I
> stopped the attempts.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Gueorgui Kolev
>
> Department of Economics and Business
> Universitat Pompeu Fabra
>
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