[R] Error: cannot allocate vector of size 117.3 Mb

[Uwe Ligges]

ram basnet wrote:
> Dear R users,
>  
> I am using RandomForest package. While using this package, i got 
> "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 117.3 Mb" .........................message.
> I had this problem earlier too but could not manage. Is there any way to solve this problem or to increase vector size ? My data set is of 163 samples and 5546 variables.
> I tried through "? Memory" function to solve this problem, still could not manage. I am hopeful to get solution from this R-help forum.
> Thanks in advance.

So what did you do exactly? What kind of data are your variables? 
Factors (how many levels), numerical values? And what are the parameters 
of your hardware?

Uwe Ligges

>  
> Regards,
> Ram Kumar Basnet.
> 
> 
>       
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.