Re: [Rd] Implementing a single-precision class with raw (now integer)

2005-08-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Colin A. Smith wrote: On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:38 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Unfortunately, R sometimes hits the 2GB memory limit of Win32. The rw-FAQ explains why that is _not_ the limit! Sorry to be uninformed, I see from the Microsoft documentation that the limit can b

Re: [Rd] Implementing a single-precision class with raw (now integer)

2005-08-24 Thread Colin A. Smith
On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:38 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Unfortunately, R sometimes hits the 2GB memory limit of Win32. > The rw-FAQ explains why that is _not_ the limit! Sorry to be uninformed, I see from the Microsoft documentation that the limit can be increased to 3GB when you change the boot

Re: [Rd] Implementing a single-precision class with raw

2005-08-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Colin A. Smith wrote: > A package that I develop (xcms) sometimes needs to read and process > vectors several hundreds of megabytes in size. (They only represent > parts of a large data sets which can approach nearly 100GB.) > Unfortunately, R sometimes hits the 2GB memory lim

[Rd] Implementing a single-precision class with raw

2005-08-19 Thread Colin A. Smith
A package that I develop (xcms) sometimes needs to read and process vectors several hundreds of megabytes in size. (They only represent parts of a large data sets which can approach nearly 100GB.) Unfortunately, R sometimes hits the 2GB memory limit of Win32. To help cut the memory footprint in