[Rd] Distance Metrics using Euclidean

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please ask help questions on R-help.

You are asking for a distance matrix of 10000 points. That has almost 100 
million entries, too large for your 1Gb computer (even if only half of it 
is stored).  What can you usefully do with such a matrix?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Keizer_71 wrote:

>
> I am trying to calculate the distance metrics, but i keep getting this error.
> I am very new with R. Am i doing something wrong.
>
>
>> dim(data.sub)
> [1] 10000   140
>
>> dist(data.sub, method = "euclidean", diag = FALSE, upper = FALSE, p = 2)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 781250 Kb
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Reached total allocation of 1014Mb: see help(memory.size)
> 2: Reached total allocation of 1014Mb: see help(memory.size)
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