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 <herd_...@cox.net> wrote: > 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 and will move on to baseball data and > a few other things. I’d like some advise about how much RAM and stuff like > that. I understand there is something called zones of computer memory. Can > someone direct me to a good source so I can learn more? I really don’t > understand stuff like this. Does anyone think I need to upgrade my wifi? > > Thanks, > Philip > [[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. > [[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.
