Re: [R] SSD vs RAM upgrade

2015-09-14 Thread Mark Sharp
John, Unless you are doing something very unusual (such as using a database to keep intermediate results) SSD hardware will have no affect on R being memory bound. According to the behavior you described, you need RAM. R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. Director of Primate Records Database Southwest Nationa

[R] SSD vs RAM upgrade

2015-09-14 Thread Kulas, John T.
I have several lab computers that frequently lag/crash with R apparently due to low RAM (they're all 8 GB) I put in a request to up the RAM to 32 GB on a few, but my tech support is suggesting an SSD harddrive upgrade instead of the increased RAM. Any suggestions on the better approach (SSD har