I forgot to add that if you have less than 16GB of memory, then you
were probably paging memory to disk and that would have take a much,
much, longer time. When you are trying to do something BIG, do it in
some smaller steps and look at the resources that it takes (memory,
cpu, ...).
Jim Holtman
Do you realize you are trying to create a vector with 1 billion
entries, so this will take some time. How much memory do you have on
your computer?
Here are some times to generate increasing sample sizes. I have 16GB
on my computer and it took only 30 seconds to generate the data and
used
When I ran this code:
"
x<-sample(1:5,10,TRUE,c(0.1,0.2,0.4,0.2,0.1))
print(table(x)/10)
plot(table(x)/10,type="h",xlab="x",ylab="P(x)")
"
My laptop was frozen and didn't respond. Although I used ctrl+alt+del to
terminate r program, my laptop still did nothing. And I must
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