[R] rnorm

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Jose Narillos de Santos wrote:

> Hi I want to simulate random numbers normal distributed with this size
> (2000,10000).
>
> I tried this but my computer exhaust there is a fast way to make it?
>
>
> randz<-matrix(rnorm(2000000),2000,10000)


I'll refrain from asking if you really need/want to do that, so I'll  
just suggest that as a start you could look at the "bigmemory" package  
for an alternative way to deal with massive matrices:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigmemory/index.html

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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