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

[Rd] The URL for the replacement dll/so bundle - Re: 2 bugs in R's grDevices, and fixes.

2014-01-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: ... Somewhat related, I have finally gotten round to make two small bundles, which replace the small cairo.dll/cairo.so' in the official windows or Mac R binaries, to fix quite a few problems with them, the first of which was reported almost a year ago. Just move the two smal

Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-06 Thread Boris Aronshtam
Jay, Duncan, Thank you for your replies. The confusing part for me is that vector allows large indices, while array does not allow. Also, is there an estimate when R would support long arrays? Thanks, Boris From: Jay Emerson [mailto:jayemer...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 4:37 AM

Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14-01-06 4:12 PM, Boris Aronshtam wrote: Jay, Duncan, Thank you for your replies. The confusing part for me is that vector allows large indices, while array does not allow. See section 12 of the R Internals manual for a discussion of the issues. Also, is there an estimate when R would

[Rd] file.info() on a file.symlink():ed file on Windows - is help correct?

2014-01-06 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Is the following passage from help("file.info"): "Junction points and symbolic links are followed, so information is given about the file/directory to which the link points rather than about the link." correct? Could it be that Windows was not considered? help("file.symlink") mentions several Wi

Re: [Rd] Support for long arrays

2014-01-06 Thread George Ostrouchov
With that much RAM, you probably have many cores. Consider splitting your long array across several R sessions with distributed parallel processing so that no one segment is over the limit. You will likely need the parallel processing anyway to make your computation time tolerable. See the pbdD

[Rd] 2 bugs in R's grDevices, and fixes.

2014-01-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Just before the holiday, I asked the freetype developers what is the context of these two comments about freetype in the code of R's grDevices: === R/src/library/grDevices/src/cairo/cairoFns.c around line 720 = /* some FreeType versions have broken index support,