my experience is that 100,000 shouldn't be a problem. of course, it also depends on your computer configuration.
On 1/24/06, Gueorgui Kolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear R experts, > > Is it true that R generally cannot handle medium sized data sets(a > couple of hundreds of thousands observations) and threrefore large > date set(couple of millions of observations)? > > I googled and I found lots of questions regarding this issue, but > curiously there were no straightforward answers what can be done to > make R capable of handling data. > > Is there sth inherent in the structure of R that makes it impossible > to work with say 100 000observations and more? If it is so, is there > any hope that R can be fixed in the future? > > My experience is rather limited---I tried to load a Stata data set of > about 150000observations(which Stata handles instantly) using the > library "foreign". After half an hour R was still "thinking" so I > stopped the attempts. > > Thank you in advance, > > Gueorgui Kolev > > Department of Economics and Business > Universitat Pompeu Fabra > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > -- WenSui Liu (http://statcompute.blogspot.com) Senior Decision Support Analyst Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [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
