Re: [R] Memory Experimentation: Rule of Thumb = 10-15 Times the Memory

2007-08-10 Thread Michael Cassin
out some important datasets (US Census, UK Office of National Statistics files, etc) for 2GB servers. Regards, Mike On 8/9/07, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Charles C. Berry wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Michael Cassin wrote: I really appreciate the advice

Re: [R] Memory Experimentation: Rule of Thumb = 10-15 Times the Memory

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Cassin
Hi, I've been having similar experiences and haven't been able to substantially improve the efficiency using the guidance in the I/O Manual. Could anyone advise on how to improve the following scan()? It is not based on my real file, please assume that I do need to read in characters, and can't

Re: [R] Memory Experimentation: Rule of Thumb = 10-15 Times the Memory

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Cassin
Thanks for looking, but my file has quotes. It's also 400MB, and I don't mind waiting, but don't have 6x the memory to read it in. On 8/9/07, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we add quote = FALSE to the write.csv statement its twice as fast reading it in. On 8/9/07, Michael

Re: [R] Memory Experimentation: Rule of Thumb = 10-15 Times the Memory

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Cassin
, Michael Cassin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for looking, but my file has quotes. It's also 400MB, and I don't mind waiting, but don't have 6x the memory to read it in. On 8/9/07, Gabor Grothendieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we add quote = FALSE to the write.csv statement its

Re: [R] Problem installing tseries package

2007-07-29 Thread Michael Cassin
, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Michael Cassin wrote: Hi, I'm running R 2.4.1 on Fedora Core 6 and am unable to install the tseries package. I've resolved a few problems getting to this point, by running a yum update, installing the gcc-gfortran

[R] Problem installing tseries package

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Cassin
Hi, I'm running R 2.4.1 on Fedora Core 6 and am unable to install the tseries package. I've resolved a few problems getting to this point, by running a yum update, installing the gcc-gfortran dependency, but now I'm stuck. Could someone please point me in the right direction? R