S-Plus stores objects as files whereas R stores them in memory. SAS was developed many years ago when optimizing computer resources was more important than it is now.
On 7/18/06, Ritwik Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a related question. How differently do other statistical > softwares handle large data? > > The original post claims that 350 MB is fine on Stata. Some one > suggested S-Plus. I have heard people say that SAS can handle large > data sets. Why can others do it and R seem to have a problem? Don't > these softwares load the data onto RAM. > > -- > Ritwik Sinha > Graduate Student > Epidemiology and Biostatistics > Case Western Reserve University > > http://darwin.cwru.edu/~rsinha > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
