[R] naive "collinear" weighted linear regression

Hi there Sorry for what may be a naive or dumb question. I have the following data: > x <- c(1,2,3,4) # predictor vector > y <- c(2,4,6,8) # response vector. Notice that it is an exact, perfect straight line through the origin and slope equal to 2 > error <- c(0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3) # I have (equ

[R] big data file versus ram memory

Hi there I am new to R and would like to ask some questions which might not make perfect sense. Anyhow, here they are: 1) I would like very much to use R for processing some big data files (around 1.7 or more GB) for spatial analysis, wavelets, and power spectra estimation; is this possible