Dear R family,
I am trying to read a real large dataset in R (~ 2Gb). Its in binary format. When i tried to read it by using following command
readBin("DAT.dat.nc", numeric(), n=9e8, size=4, signed=TRUE, endian='little')
I got the following error
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 5.2 Gb
I have a Ram of 4Gb. I even tried to allocate more space to it by "memory.limit(size=9000000000000)" but to no use.
What do i do? Buy a new ram or act smart?
Thankyou very much in advance
Eliza 		 	   		  
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