On 9/10/07, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS> On 9/9/07, kevinchang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I tried to made the matrix with this size by either matrix() or > array(). > >> However, there seems to be default limit of number for rows made. I > got sort > >> of error message from R .To be specific, > >> > >> m<--matrix(ncol=3,nrow=100000) > >> > >> error message:[ reached getOption("max.print") -- omitted 66667 rows ]] > >> > >> or > >> > >> a<-array(dim=c(10000,3,10)) > >> > >> error message:reached getOption("max.print") -- omitted 6667 row(s) > and 6 > >> matrix slice(s) ] > > PS> That is not an error message, I guess. > > Definitely not, > thank you, Paul! > > Also, they were not produced by what Kevin showed (namely assignments) > but rather when he *prints* the contents of his huge matrix / > array. > > PS> When the matrices are huge, R is unable to print them > PS> totally on the screen, but all data are present. > > Not at all "unable" !! > R protects you from accidentally overflowing your "console" with > huge amount of non-sensical output. > > As the warning above mentions, > you should look at > ? getOption > ? options > and particularly the 'max.print' option > > Is '' reached getOption("max.print") '' > too difficult to read? > > You *can* increase the 'max.print' option as much as you like, > and that's why I said 'not at all "unable"' above. > > Regards, > Martin > > PS> For instance, > > >> m[(nrow(m)-10):nrow(m),] > PS> [,1] [,2] [,3] > PS> [1,] NA NA NA > PS> [2,] NA NA NA > PS> [3,] NA NA NA > PS> [4,] NA NA NA > PS> [5,] NA NA NA > PS> [6,] NA NA NA > PS> [7,] NA NA NA > PS> [8,] NA NA NA > PS> [9,] NA NA NA > PS> [10,] NA NA NA > PS> [11,] NA NA NA > > or rather just > > tail(m) > > or tail(m, 11) > or head(m) > > or str(m) > > etc etc > > PS> See > > PS> ?getOption > > yes indeed.
Thanks, Martin, for your detailed comments. I have learned something from them. Paul ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.