I'm very interested in the bigmemory package for windows 32-bit environments. Who do I need to contact to request the Beta version?
Thanks Steve Steve Friedman Ph. D. Spatial Statistical Analyst Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park 950 N Krome Ave (3rd Floor) Homestead, Florida 33034 steve_fried...@nps.gov Office (305) 224 - 4282 Fax (305) 224 - 4147 Corrado <ct...@york.ac.uk > To Sent by: john.emer...@yale.edu, Tony Breyal r-help-boun...@r- <tony.bre...@googlemail.com> project.org cc r-help@r-project.org Subject 03/02/2009 10:46 Re: [R] Using very large matrix AM GMT Thanks a lot! Unfortunately, the R package I have to sue for my research was only released on 32 bit R on 32 bit MS Windows and only closed source .... I normally use 64 bit R on 64 bit Linux .... :) I tried to use the bigmemory in cran with 32 bit windows, but I had some serious problems. Best, On Thursday 26 February 2009 15:43:11 Jay Emerson wrote: > Corrado, > > Package bigmemory has undergone a major re-engineering and will be > available soon (available now in Beta version upon request). The version > currently on CRAN > is probably of limited use unless you're in Linux. > > bigmemory may be useful to you for data management, at the very least, > where > > x <- filebacked.big.matrix(80000, 80000, init=n, type="double") > > would accomplish what you want using filebacking (disk space) to hold > the object. > But even this requires 64-bit R (Linux or Mac, or perhaps a Beta > version of Windows 64-bit > R that REvolution Computing is working on). > > Subsequent operations (e.g. extraction of a small portion for analysis) are > then easy enough: > > y <- x[1,] > > would give you the first row of x as an object y in R. Note that x is > not itself an R matrix, > and most existing R analytics can't work on x directly (and would max > out the RAM if they > tried, anyway). > > Feel free to email me for more information (and this invitation > applies to anyone who is > interested in this). > > Cheers, > > Jay > > #Dear friends, > # > #I have to use a very large matrix. Something of the sort of > #matrix(80000,80000,n) .... where n is something numeric of the sort > 0.xxxxxx # > #I have not found a way of doing it. I keep getting the error > # > #Error in matrix(nrow = 80000, ncol = 80000, 0.2) : too many elements > specified # > #Any suggestions? I have searched the mailing list, but to no avail. > # > #Best, > #-- > #Corrado Topi > # > #Global Climate Change & Biodiversity Indicators > #Area 18,Department of Biology > #University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK > #Phone: + 44 (0) 1904 328645, E-mail: ct...@york.ac.uk -- Corrado Topi Global Climate Change & Biodiversity Indicators Area 18,Department of Biology University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK Phone: + 44 (0) 1904 328645, E-mail: ct...@york.ac.uk ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.