Memory/data -last time I promise
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Martin Maechler wrote:
Agustin> Well, this rises an interesting point for me: are there
Agustin> advices on how to configure a particular system for best R
Agustin> performance with large datasets? I've looked into the R system
Agustin> guide and could not find anything (that document is a bit
Agustin> obscure for me, must recognize).
which document? There's no ``R system guide''
I mean R-admin.pdf
Agustin> Do you get the 800 Mb by starting R with a particular option?
no; Brian said ``when needed'' which means that R allocates memory (almost
always) when it needs it.
ok, so I understand that R allocates large amounts of memory with no need of starting option, with the only limit of the free swap space. Thanks Agus -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._