[R] Memory problem?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Eleni Christodoulou wrote:

> Hello R users,
>
> I am trying to run a cox model for the prediction of relapse of 80 cancer
> tumors, taking into account the expression of 17000 genes. The data are
> large and I retrieve an error:
> "Cannot allocate vector of 2.4 Mb". I increase the memory.limit to 4000
> (which is the largest supported by my computer) but I still retrieve the
> error because of other big variables that I have in the workspace. Does
> anyone know how to overcome this problem?

Use a 64-bit version of R.

(The 'minimal information' asked for in the posting guide would have 
helped us give a more information answer, but likely the problem is too 
big for a 32-bit OS.)

>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Eleni
>
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