We don't know how much memory your computer has and how exactly you plan to generate these samples, so no one can really help you all that much. Its best for you to just code up what you want to do and find out if you get any memory errors or not. If you run into trouble and you can show us exactly what you are doing, I am sure that at that point many people will be very helpful.
Thanks, Roger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Leoni Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:18 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Handling large calculations and memory Dear All, I am planning to run a Monte-Carlo experiment which involves to do roughly 100.000 times the following 1- Generating a sample of, say, 50.000 numbers from an ARMA or GARCH 2- Doing some regressions on the series 3- On each regression storing one special value from the results into a sequence that will be analyzed later. The experiment is calculation-intensive, and I suspect some problems of memory management. I would appreciate some advices for the experiment to run smoothly in terms of memory. Many Thanks, Patrick Leoni Department of Economics and Finance NUI at Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare Republic of Ireland ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ********************************************************************** * This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No right to confidential or privileged treatment of this message is waived or lost by any error in transmission. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail, delete the message and all copies from your system and destroy any hard copies. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.