All-
       Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to lend.  Here is
my issue.  I am trying to open a fairly large .dat file.  The file
originally was downloaded as a GZ file but I unzipped it (with 7-zip) into
it's current 1.86 gig .dat format.  I know that the data is "just a plain
ASCII file with 720 columns and 360 rows per time step (month). It should be
readable by anything!"  There are 1272 steps.  Here is what happens when I
try to assign the file to an object:

> clds<-read.table("C:\\CRU
Data\\TS3.0\\Cloud\\cru_ts_3_00.1901.2006.cld.dat", header = TRUE, row.names
= 1)
       Error in read.table("C:\\CRU
Data\\TS3.0\\Cloud\\cru_ts_3_00.1901.2006.cld.dat",  :
       duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed
      In addition: There were 45 warnings (use warnings() to see them)
>warnings()
       1: In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines,  ... :
       Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size)
       X 25
       26: In type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec,  ... :
       Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size)


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Carson Baughman
Cell: (406) 360-9254
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning

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