Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Rainer Schuermann
It would be helpful if - you give us some sample data: dput( head( myData ) ) - tell us what kind of function you want to apply, or how the result looks like that you want to achieve - show us what you have done so far, and where you are stuck On Saturday 17 August 2013 19:33:08

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, In addition to Rainer's suggestion (which are to give an small example of what your input data look like and an example of what you want to output), given the size of your input data, you might want to try to use the data.table package instead of plyr::ddply -- especially while you are

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Paul, First: please keep your replies on list (use reply-all when replying to R-help lists) so that others can help but also the lists can be used as a resource for others. Now: On Aug 18, 2013, at 12:20 AM, Paul Bernal paulberna...@gmail.com wrote: Can R really handle millions of rows of

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Paul Bernal
Thanks a lot for the valuable information. Now my question would necessarily be, how many columns can R handle, provided that I have millions of rows and, in general, whats the maximum amount of rows and columns that R can effortlessly handle? Best regards and again thank you for the help, Paul

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi Paul, On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Paul Bernal paulberna...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot for the valuable information. Now my question would necessarily be, how many columns can R handle, provided that I have millions of rows and, in general, whats the maximum amount of rows and

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Paul Bernal
Thank you so much Steve. The computer I'm currently working with is a 32 bit windows 7 OS. And RAM is only 4GB so I guess thats a big limitation. El 18/08/2013 03:11, Steve Lianoglou lianoglou.st...@gene.com escribió: Hi Paul, On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Paul Bernal

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Dylan Doyle
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Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Bert Gunter
This is ridiculous! Please read An Introduction to R (ships with R) or other online R tutorial. There are many good ones. There are also probably online courses. Please make an effort to learn the basics before posting further here. -- Bert On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Dylan Doyle

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Yes, please do some reading first and give take a crack at your data first. This will only be a fruitful endeavor for you after you get some working knowledge of R. Hadley is compiling a nice book online that I think is very helpful to read through:

Re: [R] First time r user

2013-08-18 Thread jwd
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 02:56:56 -0500 Paul Bernal paulberna...@gmail.com wrote: Paul, I would suggest acquiring at least a small library of of books about R and reading them. I would recommend An Introduction to R and R Data Import/Export (both available online on the R Project Site in both pdf

[R] First time r user

2013-08-17 Thread Dylan Doyle
Hello R users, I have recently begun a project to analyze a large data set of approximately 1.5 million rows it also has 9 columns. My objective consists of locating particular subsets within this data ie. take all rows with the same column 9 and perform a function on that subset. It was