Andy Elvey (andy.elvey@paradise.net.nz)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:37:50 +1300
Thomas Lumley wrote:
> Neither R nor S-PLUS is particularly suited to handling large data. I
> believe S-PLUS has some multithreading, but that its main computations are
> still done by a single processor. However, this is perhaps not the best
> list to get information about S-PLUS.
>
> You would be better off splitting the data into pieces using some other
> program. Either S-PLUS or R will handle 550x550 matrices perfectly
> happily if you have that much memory.
>
> Thomas Lumley
> Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
> University of Washington, Seattle
>
> ************
One other possibility that may be worth a try is the language "Yorick" which is
specifically designed with array/matrix processing in mind. Try the following URL
-
ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/Yorick/yorick-ad.html
( Hope this suggestion doesn't offend on an R-help mailing list ... I am a keen
(although new) R user but am also aware of a few other ways of solving
problems...:-)
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