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2006 Jan 24
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Can R handle medium and large size data sets?
...set(couple of millions of observations)? I googled and I found lots of questions regarding this issue, but curiously there were no straightforward answers what can be done to make R capable of handling data. Is there sth inherent in the structure of R that makes it impossible to work with say 100 000observations and more? If it is so, is there any hope that R can be fixed in the future? My experience is rather limited---I tried to load a Stata data set of about 150000observations(which Stata handles instantly) using the library "foreign". After half an hour R was still "thinking" so I...