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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am trying to use R to cluster 7129 samples, my
data set is a 7129 x 38 matrix, when I trying to get the distance
matrix using function dist( ), the memory exhausted, and I tried to set the
memory when I run R by </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>R --vsize=250M --nsize=1000k</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>no matter what I set for vsize the result is the
same, it says:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Error: heap memory (256000kb) exhausted [need <FONT
color=#800000><U>198498Kb </U></FONT>more]</FONT></DIV>
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size=2> <FONT
color=#800000>(this doesn't change)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What can I do to solve this?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you very much!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hongli Li</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>