Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-06 Thread George Ostrouchov
vel@r-project.org" Cc: Boris Aronshtam Subject: [Rd] Support for long arrays Message-ID: <9d80368c6a00834189c1982fb64efa3007ee9...@ord2mbx07c.mex05.mlsrvr.com> Content-Type: text/plain My machine has hundreds of GB of RAM. Is there a way to create an array having more than 2 Bil

Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
support long arrays? Not as far as I know. Duncan Murdoch Thanks, Boris From: Jay Emerson [mailto:jayemer...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 4:37 AM To: r-devel@r-project.org; Boris Aronshtam Subject: re: [Rd] Support for long arrays You could look at some extension packages

Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-06 Thread Boris Aronshtam
AM To: r-devel@r-project.org; Boris Aronshtam Subject: re: [Rd] Support for long arrays You could look at some extension packages, bigmemory for example. A recent paper http://www.jstatsoft.org/v55/i14 (though for more developer-level capabilities you would need to look at the package itself

Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-06 Thread Jay Emerson
You could look at some extension packages, bigmemory for example. A recent paper http://www.jstatsoft.org/v55/i14 (though for more developer-level capabilities you would need to look at the package itself). Although the big.matrix objects can't be used seamlessly as if they were matrices, they do

Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14-01-05 3:18 PM, Boris Aronshtam wrote: My machine has hundreds of GB of RAM. Is there a way to create an array having more than 2 Billion (2^31) rows? Not currently. Individual dimensions are limited to signed 32 bit values. The overall count of elements is limited to 2^52 or so. Du

[Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-05 Thread Boris Aronshtam
My machine has hundreds of GB of RAM. Is there a way to create an array having more than 2 Billion (2^31) rows? I am trying to create a large array using: d = c(1e+10,2) a=array(0,d) This results in the error: Error in array(0, d) : negative length vectors are not allowed In addition: Warning