[R] Specifying suitable PC to run R

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Oct 10 09:22:19 CEST 2003


On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 james.holtman at convergys.com wrote:

> My first choice is get as much memory on your machine as you can; 1GB since
> this the most that R can use. 

R can use up to 2Gb, but Windows is unlikely to give you that much -- 
1.7Gb has been achieved (see the CHANGES file, I believe).


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