I would suggest that you make a more thorough search of the R-Archives. (http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html) If you do you will find this discussion has been had several times and that the type of machine you are running will have an impact upon what you can do. My feeling is that you are going have to knuckle down with the documentation and understand how R works and then when you have specific issues that show you have read all the appropriate documentation, you might try another message to the list.
Ciao, Tom _________________________________________________ Tom Mulholland Senior Policy Officer WA Country Health Service Tel: (08) 9222 4062 The contents of this e-mail transmission are confidential and may be protected by professional privilege. The contents are intended only for the named recipients of this e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, reproduction, disclosure or distribution of the information contained in this e-mail is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately. -----Original Message----- From: Edward McNeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2003 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] R and Memory Dear all, This is my first post. We have started to use R here and have also started teaching it to our PhD students. Our unit will be the HQ for developing R throughout Thailand. I would like some help with a problem we are having. We have one sample of data that is quite large in fact - over 2 million records (ok ok it's more like a population!). The data is stored in SPSS. The file is over 350Mb but SPSS happily stores this much data. Now when I try to read it into R it grunts and groans for a few seconds and then reports that there is not enough memory (the computer has 250MB RAM). I have tried setting the memory in the command line (--max-vsize and --max-mem-size) but all to no avail. Any help would be muchly appreciated! Edward McNeil (son of Don) Epidemiology Unit Faculty of Medicine Prince of Songkhla University Hat Yai 90110 THAILAND ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
