What about the S-Plus question? S-Plus stores objects in files whereas R stores them in memory.
On 4/9/07, Jorge Cornejo-Donoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Dell with 2 Intel XEON 3.0 procesors and 2GB of ram.... > The problem is the DB size. > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: Lunes, 09 de Abril de 2007 11:28 > Para: Jorge Cornejo-Donoso > CC: [email protected] > Asunto: Re: [R] Reasons to Use R > > Have you tried 64 bit machines with larger memory or do you mean that you > can't use R on your current machines? > > Also have you tried S-Plus? Will that work for you? The transition from > that to R would be less than from SAS to R. > > On 4/9/07, Jorge Cornejo-Donoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tha s9ze of db is an issue with R. We are still using SAS because R > > can't handle own db, and of couse we don't want to sacrify resolution, > > because the data collection is expensive (at least in fisheries and > > oceagraphy), so.. I think that R need to improve the use of big DBs. > > Now I only can use R for graph preparation and some data analisis, but > > we can't do the main work on R, abd that is really sad. > > > > ______________________________________________ [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.
