Hi there!

I am considering to port a SAS application to R and I would like to hear your 
opinion if you think this is possible and worthwhile. SAS is mainly used to do 
data management and then to do some aggregations and simple computations on the 
data and to output a modified data set. The main problem I see is the size of 
the data file. As I have no access to SAS yet I cannot give real details but 
the SAS data file is about 7 gigabytes large. (It's only the basic SAS system 
without any additional modules)

What do you think, would a port to R be possible with reasonable effort? Is R 
able to handle that size of data? Or is R prepared to work together with some 
database system?

Thanks for your thoughts!

Best regards,
  Werner

                
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