Re: [R] R: machine for moderately large data

2012-10-05 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ista Zahn wrote: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM, PIKAL Petr wrote: [snip] >> If I compute correctly, such a big matrix (20e6*1000) needs about 160 GB >> just to be in memory. Are you prepared for this? > > This is not as outrageous as one might think -- yo

Re: [R] R: machine for moderately large data

2012-10-05 Thread Ista Zahn
help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] R: machine for moderately large data >> >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to ask your advice about a suitable computer for the >> following usage. >> I (am starting to) work with moderately big data in R: >> - cca

Re: [R] R: machine for moderately large data

2012-10-05 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Skála, Zdeněk (INCOMA GfK) > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 3:38 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] R: machine for moderately large data > >

[R] R: machine for moderately large data

2012-10-05 Thread INCOMA GfK
Dear all, I would like to ask your advice about a suitable computer for the following usage. I (am starting to) work with moderately big data in R: - cca 2 - 20 million rows * 100 - 1000 columns (market basket data) - mainly clustering, classification trees, association analysis (e.g. libraries