Sure, get more RAM. 2GB is a tiny amount if you need to load files of 1GB into R, and as you've discovered won't work.
You can try a few simpler things, like making sure there's nothing loaded into R except what you absolutely need. It looks like there's no reason to read the entire file into R at once for what you want to do, so you could also load a chunk, process that, then move onto the next one. Sarah On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Rantony <antony.akk...@ge.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Here in R, I need to load a huge file(.csv) , its size is 200MB. [may come > more than 1GB sometimes]. > When i tried to load into a variable it taking too much of time and after > that when i do cbind by groups, > getting an error like this > > " Error: cannot allocate vector of size 82.4 Mb " > > My requirement is, spilt data from Huge-size-file(.csv) to no. of small csv > files. > Here i will give no of lines to be 'split by' as input. > > Below i give my code > ------------------------------- > SplitLargeCSVToMany <- > function(DataMatrix,Destination,NoOfLineToGroup) > { > test <- data.frame(read.csv(DataMatrix)) > > # create groups No.of rows > group <- rep(1:NROW(test), each=NoOfLineToGroup) > new.test <- cbind(test, group=group) > new.test2 <- new.test > new.test2[,ncol(new.test2)] <- NULL > > # now get indices to write out > indices <- split(seq(nrow(test)), new.test[, 'group']) > > # now write out the files > for (i in names(indices)) > { > write.csv(new.test2[indices[[i]],], > file=paste(Destination,"data.", i, > ".csv", sep=""),row.names=FALSE) > } > } > > ----------------------------------------------------- > My system Configuration is, > Intel Core2 Duo > speed : 3GHz > 2 GB RAM > OS: Windows-XP [ServicePack-3] > --------------------------------------------------- > > Any hope to solve this issue ? > > Thanks in advance, > Antony. > > > > > -- -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.