[GenABEL-dev] Fwd: New comment on "Package ff: memory-efficient storage of large data on disk and fast access functions"

[Yurii S. Aulchenko]

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> Date: January 4, 2011 3:55:17 PM GMT+01:00
> To: Yurii Aulchenko <i.aoultchenko at erasmusmc.nl>
> Subject: New comment on "Package ff: memory-efficient storage of  
> large data on disk and fast access functions"
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> Discussion: Package ff: memory-efficient storage of large data on  
> disk and fast access functions
> And another option is the RevoScaleR package from Revolution  
> Computing, see there: http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/products/enterprise-big-data.php
> It is a commercial package, but it's free for academic use. As far  
> as the advertisements go, it has working linear as well as logistic  
> regression methods.
> Regarding accessibility of the "big memory" objects by other  
> packages - I think we should forget about it for the moment. Big  
> memory objects are not native R objects and are not accessible by  
> native R functions nor by other packages. As far as I know this is  
> the case for all of the packages mentioned here so far.
> Posted by Michal Figurski
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