Hello Jim,
It sounds like a good time to go read about the packages
bigmemory
and/or
ff

Best,
Tal


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On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM, jim holtman <jholtman@gmail.com> wrote:

> You are trying to create an object with 1G elements.  Given that these
> are integers, this will require about 4GB of space.  If you are
> running on a 32-bit system, which has a total phyical limit of 2-3GB
> depending on what options you are running (at least on Windows), then
> you have exceeded the limits.  It is a good idea to limit your largest
> object to about 25% of physical memory in case copies have to be made
> during some of the analysis.
>
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Wu Gong <ghowoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Might there be a limit ?
> >
> >> c <- matrix(1:100000000, ncol=200)
> >> dim(c)
> > [1] 500000    200
> >> c <- matrix(1:1000000000, ncol=200)
> > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.7 Gb
> >
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