Depends on the RAM in your machine. And in your definition of 'handle'. You may be able to load a very large dataset into R, but won't be able to use some functions that require additional memory.

A vague answer to a vague question... :)

Julian


Mingjun Huang wrote:
Hello,

   I am new to R, can anyone give me an idea of how R handle a large dataset
   (e.g. couple of Gbytes)? Thanks a lot!


   Best,
   Mingjun

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