How many records can the R recursive partitioning software handle?
We are analyzing 5,000,000 medical records looking at 100 risk factors for
the outcome of interest
Richard H. White, MD
Hibbard E. Williams Endowed Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of General Medicine
DIrector,
Exactly what do you want to do with the data? It is 5M rows with 100
columns of data? Do you want to read it all in at once? If so, and
if they are numeric, you will need 4GB to hold one copy, and be
running on a 64-bit version of R. If you want to do any processing
with everything in memory,
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