Hi Uwe, I am pleased to inform you that this problem has, following your hint, been resolved. I installed 64-bit version of R and I was alright. Thanks again for your time. Ogbos
2009/6/24 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > > > ogbos okike wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have a data of size 981.1MB(1028707715) and I intend to calculate the >> length of the data using tapply function in R. I was able to read the data >> into R but when I tried to use the factor function, I had an error message >> "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 2.0 Gb". >> Can anybody tell me what to do? I have tried to increase the size of the >> memory but I am not sure if R recognizes it as the error message persists. >> Is there any other thing I need to do for R to recognize the memory >> increase? >> > > > My guess is that this is a 32-bit version of R? > You need some 64-bit OS and 64-bit R or try to decrease the amount/size of > objects that are in the same time in your memory. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > Thank you so much for any help. >> Ogbos >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
