Let's assume that you are running on a system with 2GB of memory. All of R's data is held in memory and I would suggest that no single object have more that 25% of memory. That would suggest that 500MB for a single object would be a reasonable limit. If you are working with something like 2M rows of numeric data (each element takes 8 bytes), then you should be able to handle about 32 columns in the matrix without much trouble. If you have a 64-bit version of R, then the limit is how much you want to spend on memory.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:12 AM, thabet chelligue <chelliguetha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I’m a french student in Master level “Statistics and Econometrics” . Now I’m > in training for a marketing firm. > > I don’t find the information about the capacity of R . > > Can you tell me how much lignes and colones can R manipulates? > > Can I work with a data of 2 milions lignes? > > When I asked M.Maechler , he advices me to ask you about this. > > Thank you very much. > > > > > > >> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:03:02 +0100 >> Subject: Re: Hello >> From: mmaech...@gmail.com >> To: chelliguetha...@hotmail.com >> >> Dear M. Thabet Chelligue, >> >> please do ask such questions on one of the public R mailing lists; >> typically 'R-help' is perfect. >> --> http://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 17:05, thabet chelligue >> <chelliguetha...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > I’m a french student in Master level “Statistics and Econometrics” . Now >> > I’m >> > in training for a marketing firm. >> > >> > I don’t find the information about the capacity of R . >> > >> > Can you respond me how much lignes and colones can R manipulates? >> > >> > Can I work with a data of 2 milions lignes? >> > >> > Thank you . >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > Découvrez toutes les possibilités de communication avec vos proches > > _________________________________________________________________ > [[elided Hotmail spam]] > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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 Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
