Depends how you use it. e.g. it can be stored on disk and worked with in pieces. Or some packages work with virtual memory, I believe.
However, it is certainly not possible to read it into R. In fact, you probably won't be able to handle more (and maybe much less) than about 500 mb in R. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Partha Sinha <pnsinh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using R 3.3.2 on win 7, 32 bit with 2gb Ram. Is it possible to use > more than 2 Gb data set ? > > Regards > Partha > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
