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Problem with spatial error model - discontinuous polygons - memory problem

2 messages · Debarchana Ghosh, Roger Bivand

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Debarchana Ghosh wrote:

            
(16GB is wasted on Windows IMHO)

Not on Windows - there are tips on the R for Windows FAQ for running the 
32-bit R binary with maximum memomy for a 32-bit platform. There are no 
gcc Windows 64-bit compilers available yet, so there is no 64-bit Windows 
binary. 64-bit service is available on OSX (experimental but including 
x86_64 at http://r.research.att.com/) and Unix/Linux (which are what the 
developeRs mostly use).

The main difficulty seems to be that the Win32 API (and ABI) was quite 
well known, while reconstructing what M$ has done with the Win64 API and 
ABI is still taking time. The MinGW developers are working on it, but 
because few applications actually need it (there are better alternatives), 
progress is slow, and Win32 binaries run on Win64 on x86_64.

In any case, finding the eigenvalues of an nxn matrix (and operating on 
such matrices) is not really necessary, since sparse matrix routes are 
provided. See the method= argument documented in ?errorsarlm - "spam" is 
somewhat faster than "Matrix" in preliminary trials.

Roger