> Have a look at the help page for memory.size and memory.limit. The help > says you can use these functions on Windows and another approach with > Unix. Once you know the available memory you can calculate the total > matrix size that fits in it (knowing that a real number takes 8 bytes). > I would recommend using up to 70-80% of the available memory for your > matrix.
But then there's the overhead for each R object, which is very non-trivial (but not so bad as to be completely depressing...). --e ______________________________________________ [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.
