[R] R 64-bit memory.limit() is max of ?

2010-02-17 Thread S. Few
Currently using R 2.92 Win XP Goal: scale up computing capacity for large datasets (1-5 million records) I realize under 32 bit versions of R the memory.limit is maxed at 4GB. Q: 1. What are the limits under 64 bit versions of R? Are those limits OS dependent? 2. Are there limits to the size of

[R] Linux R version: best?

2009-09-10 Thread S. Few
For my Redhat 5.2 Linux box, which version of R would be most stable? I am doing forecasting, statistics, etc. Thanks! Steve __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www

[R] R 2.9.2 memory max - object vector size

2009-09-10 Thread S. Few
Me: Win XP 4 gig ram R 2.9.2 library(foreign) # to read/write SPSS files library(doBy) # for summaryBy library(RODBC) setwd("C:\\Documents and Settings\\00909BR") gc() memory.limit(size=4000) ## PROBLEM: I have memory limit problems. R and otherwise. My dataframes for merging or su