The vector contains 1.5*10^8 numeric elements. It takes about 3~4 GB in memory. And I would like to find percentiles: 0%, 0.5%, 1%, ... 100% I use 64 bit R and windows 7 with 24GB Ram. Thank you.
Best, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:40 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > R runs with data in memory. What type of system are you running on (32 or > 64 bit)? How big is your data; you did not provide much information about > your problem. Depending on what you what to 'sort', there might be other > ways of doing it. This gets back to my tag line: "Tell me what you want to > do, not how you want to do it". > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jie <jimmycl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> I have a long sequence and want to find the quantile, or sort it first. >> It seems sort() or quantile() reaches the memory limit. >> Is there a way to allocate more memoy on SSD for R when startup, so >> that R can use both RAM and hard drive space? >> Thank you. >> >> Best wishes, >> Jie >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
