On 31/07/2012 15:10, David Romano wrote:
I need to multiply to very large, nonsparse matrices, and so get the
error "allocMatrix: too many elements specified".
Is there a way to set the limit for allocMatrix?
No: see ?'Memory-limits'.
There are also limits on individual objects. On all builds of R,
the maximum length (number of elements) of a vector is 2^31 - 1 ~
2*10^9, as lengths are stored as signed integers.
and of course a matrix is just a vector with some attributes.
In R-devel you can get more: but don't bother unless you have 64+GB of
RAM as the limit currently is a 16GB matrix and you'll need space for
more than one. (All the support for larger object is work-in-progress,
and reducing the number of copies is going on in parallel.)
In my case, the two matrices, A and B, are nxm and mxp where m is
small, so I could subdivide each into blocks of submatrices
A=rbind(A1,A2,...) and B=cbind(B1,B2,...) then multiply each pair of
submatrices, but I was thinking there must be a better way to get
around the allocMatrix limit. I'd be grateful for any suggestions!
Thanks,
David
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