Hello Jim, It sounds like a good time to go read about the packages bigmemory and/or ff
Best, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are trying to create an object with 1G elements. Given that these > are integers, this will require about 4GB of space. If you are > running on a 32-bit system, which has a total phyical limit of 2-3GB > depending on what options you are running (at least on Windows), then > you have exceeded the limits. It is a good idea to limit your largest > object to about 25% of physical memory in case copies have to be made > during some of the analysis. > > > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Wu Gong <gho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Might there be a limit ? > > > >> c <- matrix(1:100000000, ncol=200) > >> dim(c) > > [1] 500000 200 > >> c <- matrix(1:1000000000, ncol=200) > > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.7 Gb > > > > > > ----- > > A R learner. > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Increasing-the-maximum-number-of-rows-tp2226950p2227578.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 > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > 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. > [[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.