Re: [R] [R-sig-hpc] Quickest way to make a large empty file on disk?

Jonathon, 10,000 numbers is pretty small, so I don't think time will be a big problem. You could write this using writeBin with no problems. For larger files, why not just use a loop? The writing is pretty fast, so I don't think you'll have too many problems. On my machine: ptm -

[R] compiling 2.6.2 using icc

I am having trouble compiling R-2.6.2 on suse linux x86_64 using the intel compiler. I read section C.2.1 Intel compilers in the R Installation and Administration manual, and put CC=icc CFLAGS=-g -O3 -wd188 -ip F77=ifort FFLAGS=-g -O3 ICC_LIBS=/opt/intel/cce/10.1.012/lib