On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 3/31/03 10:21:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I must admit that I am always eager to debunk the myth that SAS is (so much) > > better than the S language for data management, because to me the myth > > mostly points out that many statisticians have never used anything else but > > SAS. > > > > Depends on the size of the data and what one is trying to do. I tried to > subset a data.frame when memory.size() showed about 20M, nothing else was > running other than R, and it reached the memory limit 127M without doing the > job. The object is about 10M. Any hints?
Get more memory! 128Mb is very little for a Windows PC these days, and you can buy many Gb for the price of a SAS licence. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
