Re: Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question

2005-02-16 Thread Graham Jones
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes But Bert's caveats apply: you have 200 problems of size 20,000 since in QDA each class's distribution is estimated separately, and a single pass will give you the sufficient statistics however large the dataset is. I

Re :Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question

2005-02-15 Thread Naji
Hi, Also I agree those cases are relatively rare in STATISTICAL analysis, you can encounter them for simulation topics (natural catalysm a 5 meter in the topographics can change all the simulations) Two ideas (in addition to loading several sections) is 1- to search for duplicate cases and

Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question

2005-02-15 Thread Graham Jones
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], r-help- [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Can comeone give me an example (perhaps in a private response, since I'm off topic here) where one actually needs all cases in a large data set (large being 1e6, say) to do a STATISTICAL analysis? By statistical I exclude, say

Re: Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question

2005-02-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Graham Jones wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], r-help- [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [Actually quoting Bert Gunter, BTW] Can comeone give me an example (perhaps in a private response, since I'm off topic here) where one actually needs all cases in a large data set (large being

Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question

2005-02-14 Thread Berton Gunter
read all 200 million rows a pipe dream no matter what platform I'm using? In principle R can handle this with enough memory. However, 200 million rows and three columns is 4.8Gb of storage, and R usually needs a few times the size of the data for working space. You would likely be

RE: Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question

2005-02-14 Thread Thomas Colson
' Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question read all 200 million rows a pipe dream no matter what platform I'm using? In principle R can handle this with enough memory. However, 200 million rows and three columns is 4.8Gb

Re: Off topic -- large data sets. Was RE: [R] 64 Bit R Background Question

2005-02-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Berton Gunter wrote: read all 200 million rows a pipe dream no matter what platform I'm using? In principle R can handle this with enough memory. However, 200 million rows and three columns is 4.8Gb of storage, and R usually needs a few times the size of the data for working