i believe ff has a dataframe class. as for your object data im less clear. how big is it On Oct 18, 2012 12:45 PM, "Alexander Shenkin" <ashen...@ufl.edu> wrote:
> Hi Folks, > > I've been bumping my head against the 4GB limit for 32-bit R. I can't > go to 64-bit R due to package compatibility issues (ROBDC - possible but > painful, xlsReadWrite - not possible, and others). I have a number of > big dataframes whose columns all sorts of data types - factor, > character, integer, etc. I run and save models that keep copies of the > modeled data inside the model objects as well (mle2 objects, to be > specific). > > I'm searching for a way to cache some of these dataframes and objects to > virtual memory (I think I'm using the right terminology...). I've read > around, and while bigmemory and ff and the like would likely suit my > purposes if I were just dealing with numeric matricies, I'm dealing with > dataframes and objects. > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Allie > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
