Re: [R] Boundaries of R

2011-02-18 Thread Ben Bolker
Mike Marchywka hotmail.com> writes: > Duncan Murdoch: > > Vectors are limited to about 2 billion entries (2^31 - 1). Matrices are > > vectors, so that limit applies to the total count of entries. > > Dataframes are lists of vectors, so that limit applies separately to the > > numbers of rows and

Re: [R] Boundaries of R

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Marchywka
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:39:05 -0500 > From: murdoch.dun...@gmail.com > To: mich...@aers.ca > CC: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Boundaries of R > > On 18/02/2011 5:44 AM, Michael Holt wrote: > > Hello E

Re: [R] Boundaries of R

2011-02-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 18/02/2011 5:44 AM, Michael Holt wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm pretty new to R and I'm trying to get some idea of the capabilities of the language. I work with some pretty large data sets and the consensus seems to be that R does not work well with big data. I've started talking to the guys at R