Re: [R] Would Like Some Advise

2020-08-29 Thread Jan Galkowski
-help" > Subject: [R] Would Like Some Advise > Message-ID: <1157A76A248944878C040D1FE0AE725C@OWNERPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I need a new computer. have a friend who is convinced that I have an > aura about me that just kills electron

Re: [R] Would Like Some Advise

2020-08-29 Thread Duy Tran
I've worked with a 16 Gb laptop of RAM and it's been plenty for me. If you need to work with larger data, I think you should look into packages like sparklyr, which is basically dplyr running on a Spark cluster. Hope that helps ! Duy On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:09 AM Philip wrote: > I need a new

Re: [R] Would Like Some Advise

2020-08-28 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Linux supports process parallel processing with copy-on-write memory sharing (i.e. forking via mclapply) that makes certain kinds of algorithm parallelization much more memory-efficient. On August 28, 2020 7:45:12 AM PDT, Gregg via R-help wrote: >Phillip, > >The primary differences between

[R] Would Like Some Advise

2020-08-28 Thread Gregg via R-help
Phillip, The primary differences between Windows and Linux: Windows attempts to monetize most of what you do on your computer in the same way that Facebook, Google, and other Social Media sites go, but Microsoft goes one step further, and they use the OS to monetize Windows Users. Linux on the

[R] Would Like Some Advise

2020-08-28 Thread Philip
I need a new computer. have a friend who is convinced that I have an aura about me that just kills electronic devices. Does anyone out there have an opinion about Windows vs. Linux? I’m retired so this is just for my own enjoyment but I’m crunching some large National Weather Service files