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2001 Jul 11
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R for large data
...ry, but R seems pretty slow to load relatively modest
datasets of say 10-30 megs. Much slower to load than say Stata. For
comparison, stats on loading a 32 meg datafile:
R - 5.3 minutes
Stata - 31 secs
SPSS - 42 secs
SAS - 21 secs
I normally start R with the command line switch allowing it to use 600megs
or so - stata is allocated 200 megs. I've allocated 1.5 gigs to stata
before so I assume my memory management isn't an issue.
Does anyone have any pointers to documents which discuss R limitations?
Could there be something wrong with my particular R installation (RH 7.1 and
most recent s...