Assuming that your column are numeric, you would need 4GB of memory just to store one copy of the object. If this is 5 years, then you would need almost 1GB for a copy, but the processing probably will use up twice as much as it is processing. Try reading a month's worth and see how much you use. In problems like this, you creep up on it; you just try to jump in all at once. Do it in increments and watch the usage.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, xin123620 <chengxin....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Jholtman. > Now count is 46001902. I was trying to retrieve one-year data, but I still > receive the following message: > "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 64.0 Mb" > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Error-cannot-allocate-vector-of-size-tp3629384p3631354.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.