Thanks David - you're right, "PC" is not very informative. I am using XP Home with 4GB, though I don't think XP accesses more than 3GB.
>From following through the FAQ's and memory functions (e.g. "memory.limit(size = NA)") it looks like R is getting about 1535Mb at the moment. David Winsemius wrote: > >> My question is: What is the maximum number of tables that can be >> combined >> with rbind? >> Is it driven by the number of rows in the tables, by a constraint with >> the >> syntax of rbind itself, by my PC's memory, > > Yes, and the OS. "PC" is not a useful designation for an OS. > >> or by some other constraint? At this point the data files I am reading >> in are approx 2,500 rows x 150 >> columns. > > That should not be any problem. On an Intel-Mac w/ 8 GB there is no > problem with dataframes that are 500 times that size. > > If this is on a Windows box, there is an RW-FAQ on the topic. > > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Maximum-number-of-tables-combined-with-rbind-tp24122126p24124984.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
