| Date: | Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:44:54 -0400 |
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| Reply-To: | "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV> |
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| Subject: | FW: SAS vs BUGS, R, SPSS, etc. |
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> From: Talbot Michael Katz
> This is a very interesting discussion.
> I would like to address one of Daniel Habtemariam's points about
memory.
> Many of the SAS analytical procedures are adapted
> to be able to handle data sets that are too large
> to fit completely inside RAM.
> To my understanding, R (and S-Plus, too,
> I believe) is constrained to be able
> to handle only data that fits completely within RAM.
This was true of S-Plus in its earlier versions.
However, you will now find that S-Plus has a set of BigData
functions/methods
which do I/O.
http://www.insightful.com/support/splus80win/BigData.pdf
Ron Fehd the occasional S-Plus maven
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