[R] R memory issues

Ista Zahn istazahn at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 23:43:40 CET 2014


The short answer is "get a bigger computer or find a way to do the
computation using less memory".

Best,
Ists
On Nov 11, 2014 2:34 PM, "eliza botto" <eliza_botto at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear useRs,
> I have this funny thing going on with me since morning. I am 32 bit window
> 7 system with 4 GB RAM(2.95 usable). I tried to run a code on it but when I
> tried to convert dataframe to matrix by using the following code
> mat<-matrix(as.numeric(unlist(SFI)),nrow=nrow(SFI))
> *where SFI is my dataframe.
> an error came up, "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 237.3 Mb"
> I tried to increase memory by using memory.limit(2500) but to no effect.
> Kindly help me out on it as you always do.
> Thanks,
> Eliza
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