I don't think anyone knows. I do not think that there is any absolute
numbers. It is dependent upon your machine memory and the type of data that you
are working with.
If you give us some indication of the amount and type of data that you have
someone may be able to comment.
--- On Thu, 7/3/08, arghya ganguli <arghya.ganguli at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: arghya ganguli <arghya.ganguli at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R] Data size
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 7:41 AM
> Can somebody please let me know what is the maximum number
> of rows and
> columns that R can handle in a datafile?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Arghya Ganguli
>
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