Re: [R] Maximum amount of memory

2005-03-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Tim Cutts wrote: On 21 Mar 2005, at 4:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem:I need to use the maximum amount of memory in order to perform a very tough analysis. By purchasing the suitable computer, what's the maximum

Re: [R] Maximum amount of memory

2005-03-21 Thread Tim Cutts
On 21 Mar 2005, at 4:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem:I need to use the maximum amount of memory in order to perform a very tough analysis. By purchasing the suitable computer, what's the maximum amount of memory obtainable in R? Assuming that R is happy to use 64-bit memory

Re: [R] Maximum amount of memory

2005-03-21 Thread Roger D. Peng
The amount of memory you can access depends on many things, most of which are not related to R. With a 64-bit processor and suitable OS we've used R on a machines with 16GB of RAM (and accessed most of it). Of course, the memory does get very expensive after a certain point -roger [EMAIL

Re: [R] Maximum amount of memory

2005-03-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Tim Cutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 21 Mar 2005, at 4:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem:I need to use the maximum amount of memory in order to perform a very tough analysis. By purchasing the suitable computer, what's the maximum amount of memory obtainable in

Re: [R] Maximum amount of memory

2005-03-21 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Tim Cutts wrote: On 21 Mar 2005, at 4:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem:I need to use the maximum amount of memory in order to perform a very tough analysis. By purchasing the suitable computer, what's the maximum amount of memory obtainable in R? Assuming