[R] How many records could I store in a dataframe?

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Fri Sep 17 17:05:22 CEST 2004


wanr at ucalgary.ca wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a dataframe with 2 variables and 6,000,000 records. It seems R will 
> crash when the number of record is larger than 3,000,000. How many records 
> could I store in a dataframe


Which version of R, which OS?
I don't think that R crashes, but it produces an error message telling 
that the amount of free memory R has access to is not sufficient.

If it really crashes, please specify a reproducible example.

In theory, if you have access to enough memory, I think something like 
2^32-1, AFAIR.

Uwe Ligges


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