Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602081941090.27423@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2006-02-08T19:44:31Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: what are the limits on R array sizes?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0602081123490.27862@taxa.epi.umn.edu>
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Mike Miller wrote:
> I have some computers with a massive amount of memory, and I have some
> jobs that could use very large matrix sizes. Can R handle matrices of
> larger than 2GB? If I were to create a matrix of 1,000,000 x 1,000, it
> would use about 8GB. Can R work with an array of that size if I have
> compiled R on an IA64 Linux system with 15GB of RAM?
Yes. See ?"Memory-limits".
help.search("limits") gets you there.
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