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. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html