Barry Baker wrote: > Hello, > > I am a new R user and have two datasets that I would like to analyze. The > first is (2409222 x 17) and the other is (21682998 x 17). Is this possible > in R? If not then what is the maximum number of rows and columns or number > of elements that R can handle?
The number of columns and rows is not a problem here, but you will need 21682998 * 17 * 4 bytes to store the latter matrix (assuming floats) in memory, that is 1406.139 Mb. In order to do something sensible with the data, you need *at least* twice the amount of RAM, hence at least 3Gb. Uwe Ligges > Thanks in advance, > Barry > _________________________ > Barry Baker, Ph.D. > Global Climate Change Initiative > The Nature Conservancy > 2424 Spruce St., Suite 100 > Boulder, CO 80302 > > Tel: (303)-541-0322 > Fax: (303)-449-4328 > > http://nature.org/tncscience/scientists/misc/baker.html > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
