Here is an example of creating the set of indices (instead of the
dataframes) and then using them to compute on some of the values.

# create some test data
n <- 1000
x <- data.frame(a=sample(letters[1:5], n, TRUE), b=sample(LETTERS[1:5], n,
TRUE),
   c=sample(1:10, n, 1000))
x.split <- split(seq(nrow(x)), list(x$a, x$b)) # using 'a' & 'b', create
index values by group # use the indices to compute summary; use the indices
in the 'list'
# to access the data ('c')
lapply(x.split, function(z) summary(x$c[z]))

This will be faster since you only keep the original dataframe and then just
subset the data that you want to analyze based on the indices



On 7/24/06, Eduardo Dutra de Armas <eduarmasrs@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
> Hi R-users
> I'm working with a data.frame of 40000 x 10, for which I need to apply the
> "split" function. The result is very long and cannot be stored in a
> variable
> due to memory exceeding. I've tried to send the result directly to a file
> through sink(filename) function, but the problem still occurs. Does anyone
> have an idea to solve this issue?
>
> > dim(dados)
> [1] 40000    10
> > sink("d:/points.dta")
> > split(data,
> list(data$Easting,data$Northing,data$Depth,data$Media,data$Type), drop=T)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1334208 Kb
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Reached total allocation of 125Mb: see help(memory.size)
> 2: Reached total allocation of 125Mb: see help(memory.size)
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
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