Message-ID: <4DA873E0.3060200@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-04-15T16:35:44Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: question
In-Reply-To: <8E142E54149A314AAA92382A8D3447B129A5ECD4C4@EXCLUS2007.ine.cl>
On 15/04/2011 12:05 PM, Pamela Santelices Elgueta wrote:
> I have a question, What is the maximum storage capacity of data that R has?
There isn't a simple answer to this question. Vectors have a maximum
length of about 2 billion entries, and matrices are stored as vectors.
Most often you will run out of memory before you hit that limit, because
most functions in R work on data that's held in memory. However, on a
64 bit system you could have a lot of memory, and then it would be
important.
Dataframes are lists of vectors, so they can be *much* larger than matrices.
Duncan Murdoch