[R] read.table memory requirements
Thomas Lumley
thomas at biostat.washington.edu
Fri Dec 22 01:59:02 CET 2000
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to read in a big table (1.4M rows, 4 fields each) using read.table()
> and ran out of 'cons' memory with the following message:
> Error: cons memory (2800000 cells) exhausted
>
> Could someone please explain how to guess required nsize? My understanding
> of help(Memory) is that 'cons' memory should not be a limitation unless you
> create many "language" objects.
One simple and general solution is to upgrade to 1.2.0, where memory size
is adjusted automatically.
I don't think we have ever worked out the exact memory requirements of
read.table.
-thomas
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