However, this wouldn't help much with Win XP, as this only allows for 2GB 
(maximum of 3 GB):
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#There-seems-to-be-a-limit-on-the-memory-it-uses_0021

If you want to use more RAM with windows you need to use a 64bit Version.

Cheers,
Henrik

Am 24.07.2012 19:59, schrieb Sarah Goslee:
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.




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