Pretty pleased with myself right now...

[angharad_gam]

Partly because I just finished my assignment (I am finding this course really really useful - so many lightbulbs going off in my head - finally I am beginning to see why people like R).

And partly because I went to the doctor this morning to get some blood test results, and it was all good news. When she asked me to come in I was worried that my iron was low again and I would end up having to make some decisions about things I don't really want to do, like more messing about with hormones. But it was just that my iron stores had not gone up as much as she would have liked from the last set of injections. However, they were nearly double what they were before the injections, which is still pretty good.

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[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

One has heard reports that R has problems with very large data sets. Especially if you access thm the wrong way.

[angharad-gam.livejournal.com]

Oh it does. In fact it can't handle anything close to the large datasets I deal with routinely at work. It holds all objects and does all computations in RAM so you're very limited, especially in 32 bit Windows systems. If you have the latest version and a 64 bit operating system, however, you can do a bit more. There are also commercial extensions that supposedly allow you to apply it to 'big data'.