Depends on the R platform, but much larger than that. On most systems the
maximum length will be 2^31-1 (over 2 billion), but on 32-bit systems the
storage needed for the vector will hit its limit first. You can expect to
be able to use a small number of hundred million elements, depending on
what they are, if you have enough RAM.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Daniel, Sherae, ALABS wrote:
> Hi, What is the maximum size of a vector in R?
>
> I am trying to load in a vector with 1.6 million elements.
load as in load()? In which case someone must have created it!
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