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...is works especially well with operations like predicting from a model, which can be performed on a row-by-row basis. I wrote a long discussion about in-memory and out-of-memory algorithms in the context of S-PLUS and Insightful Miner, which you can download from: http://www.insightful.com/support/whitepaper_download.asp # David Smith -- David M Smith <dsmith at insightful.com> Product Manager, Insightful Corp, Seattle WA Tel: +1 (206) 802 2360 Fax: +1 (206) 283 6310 New Insightful Miner 3! Discover how Pfizer, Bank of America and others are using Insightful Miner -- a highly scalable data analysis wo...

I wonder if someone would confirm something I'm 99% sure of from the docs and discussion on the list, but can't find stated explicitly: R works only on problems that fit into (real or virtual) memory. Thus, even if you have a problem (e.g., simple regression) that could be solved by doing some operation on each row of a dataset at a time, you can't solve it unless the entire dataset