R help - Jul 2000 - R and large RAM

I am planing to buy several machines with 2 GB RAM.
Is R able to use this much memory?

Thanks

Gerhard

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Hi!

On 07-Jul-2000 Gerhard Paass wrote:
> I am planing to buy several machines with 2 GB RAM.
> Is R able to use this much memory?
Yes! We are happily running R on two Enterprise Servers with 2GB Ram.
R was behaving well if asked to comsume a lot of this RAM to work on large
datasets. 

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gerhard
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