Message-ID: <52C9C36E.6030903@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-01-05T20:41:18Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Support for long arrays
In-Reply-To: <9D80368C6A00834189C1982FB64EFA3007EE9002@ORD2MBX07C.mex05.mlsrvr.com>
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.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> 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 message:
> In array(0, d) : NAs introduced by coercion
>
> Note that I can create a vector of the same large size:
>
> v=c(1:2e+10)
>
>
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