[Rd] working with huge memory: single precision?

Hello, I'm very new to R and don't know much about it yet. I would like to develop R-programs that work with data of sizes of 10^10 - 10^11 data points. We have very-high-memory machines with ~256 GB, but it would significantly help if I could store the data points in single precision in RAM

Re: [Rd] working with huge memory: single precision?

Mario, On Aug 27, 2014, at 4:03 AM, Mario Emmenlauer ma...@emmenlauer.de wrote: Hello, I'm very new to R and don't know much about it yet. I would like to develop R-programs that work with data of sizes of 10^10 - 10^11 data points. We have very-high-memory machines with ~256 GB, but it

Re: [Rd] working with huge memory: single precision?

On 27/08/2014 14:43, Simon Urbanek wrote: Mario, On Aug 27, 2014, at 4:03 AM, Mario Emmenlauer ma...@emmenlauer.de wrote: Hello, I'm very new to R and don't know much about it yet. I would like to develop R-programs that work with data of sizes of 10^10 - 10^11 data points. We have