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license:
- Apache-2.0
- LGPL-3.0-only
title: 'bigmemory: Manage Massive Matrices with Shared Memory and Memory-Mapped Files'
version: 4.6.6
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.bigmemory
abstract: Create, store, access, and manipulate massive matrices. Matrices are allocated
  to shared memory and may use memory-mapped files. Packages 'biganalytics', 'bigtabulate',
  'synchronicity', and 'bigalgebra' provide advanced functionality.
authors:
- family-names: Kane
  given-names: Michael J.
  email: bigmemoryauthors@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1899-6662
- family-names: Emerson
  given-names: John W.
  email: jayemerson@gmail.com
- family-names: Haverty
  given-names: Peter
  email: haverty.peter@gene.com
- family-names: Determan
  given-names: Charles
  email: cdetermanjr@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: Scalable Strategies for Computing with Massive Data
  authors:
  - family-names: Kane
    given-names: Michael J.
    email: bigmemoryauthors@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1899-6662
  - family-names: Emerson
    given-names: John W.
    email: jayemerson@gmail.com
  - family-names: Weston
    given-names: Stephen
  journal: Journal of Statistical Software
  year: '2013'
  volume: '55'
  issue: '14'
  url: https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v055i14
  start: '1'
  end: '19'
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/kaneplusplus/bigmemory
commit: 4c8067976e5bca4f61c1f1c5db23cdc5615624f0
url: https://github.com/kaneplusplus/bigmemory
date-released: '2026-06-08'
contact:
- family-names: Kane
  given-names: Michael J.
  email: bigmemoryauthors@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1899-6662