On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Iris Kolder wrote:
> Thank you all for your help!
>
> So with all your suggestions we will try to run it on a computer with a
> 64 bits proccesor. But i've been told that the new R versions all work
> on a 32bits processor. I read in other posts that only the old R
> versions were capable of larger data sets and were running under 64 bit
> proccesors. I also read that they are adapting the new R version for 64
> bits proccesors again so does anyone now if there is a version available
> that we could use?
Huh? R 2.4.x runs perfectly happily accessing large memory under Linux on
64bit processors (and Solaris, and probably others). I think it even works
on Mac OS X now.
For example:
> x<-rnorm(1e9)
> gc()
used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells 222881 12.0 467875 25.0 350000 18.7
Vcells 1000115046 7630.3 1000475743 7633.1 1000115558 7630.3
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle
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