[R] memory problem

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Sun Jan 7 09:42:08 CET 2007



Zoltan Kmetty wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I had some memory problem with R - hope somebody could tell me a solution.
> 
> I work with very large datasets, but R cannot allocate enough memoty to
> handle these datasets.
> 
> I want work a matrix with row= 100 000 000 and column=10
> 
> A know this is 1 milliard cases, but i thought R could handle it (other
> commercial software like spss could do), but R wrote out everytime: not
> enough memory..
> 
> any good idea?


Buy a machine that has at least 8Gb (better 16Gb) of RAM and proceed ...

Uwe Ligges



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