R help - Mar 2013 - Allocate virtual memory on hard drive

Dear All,

I have a long sequence and want to find the quantile, or sort it first.
It seems sort() or quantile() reaches the memory limit.
Is there a way to allocate more memoy on SSD for R when startup, so
that R can use both RAM and hard drive space?
Thank you.

Best wishes,
Jie

R runs with data in memory.  What type of system are you running on (32 or
64 bit)?  How big is your data; you did not provide much information about
your problem.  Depending on what you what to 'sort', there might be
other
ways of doing it.  This gets back to my tag line: "Tell me what you want to
do, not how you want to do it".

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jie <jimmycloud@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have a long sequence and want to find the quantile, or sort it first.
> It seems sort() or quantile() reaches the memory limit.
> Is there a way to allocate more memoy on SSD for R when startup, so
> that R can use both RAM and hard drive space?
> Thank you.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jie
>
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-- 
Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

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