Re: [R] using save() to work with objects that exceed memory capacity

2012-07-30 Thread David Romano
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:08 AM, R. Michael Weylandt < michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM, David Romano > wrote: > > Context: I'm relatively new to R and am working with very large > datasets. > > > > General problem: If working on a dataset requires that I pr

Re: [R] using save() to work with objects that exceed memory capacity

2012-07-29 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM, David Romano wrote: > Context: I'm relatively new to R and am working with very large datasets. > > General problem: If working on a dataset requires that I produce more than > two objects of roughly the size of the dataset, R quickly uses up its > available mem

[R] using save() to work with objects that exceed memory capacity

2012-07-28 Thread David Romano
Context: I'm relatively new to R and am working with very large datasets. General problem: If working on a dataset requires that I produce more than two objects of roughly the size of the dataset, R quickly uses up its available memory and slows to a virtual halt. My tentative solution: To sav