[R] going past restrictions on number of elements

[Paul Rodriguez]

Hello R experts,

I'm trying to test R in a shared memory environment in which addressable memory is aggregrated to about 600G.

However, I get an error of 'too many elements' specified when I try creating a 45K x 100K matrix.

I tried running R with a --max-nsize=50000000000 option, but got the same message.

Is there a way to run create such large matrices?

thanks,
Paul Rodriguez