On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote: > Is the ca. 100MB the size of the .dta file, or the size of the data > when loaded into Stata? Or is there not a difference?
i think it is about the same. info on the processes using top to get an idea of memory use of R vs Stata using the same data: COMMAND PRI NI SIZE TRS RSS SHARE STAT %CPU TIME CPU R.bin 25 0 262M 760 262M 1880 S 0.0 0:28 0 Stata 39 19 106M 620 106M 1192 S N 0.0 0:00 0 > Have you > checked the size of the .rda file created as Doug had suggested? > I'd be curious to see what that is... it is 33,956,125 edwin ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html