[R-sig-Geo] Error:can not allocate vector of size ..., using ff or bigmemory?

[Adam]

Roger Bivand wrote
> 
> I believe that you mean that you "can't handle such big rasters..."? The 
> underlying question is related to your workflow, and to whether your 
> distances could better be represented as sparse matrices, dropping 
> measuements beyond a given threshold. Probably you don't need all the 
> distances, so if you think through the logic of what you want to do, I 
> don't doubt that you can get there. If you ask any system to do something 
> rash (like measure and store lots of distances you will subsequently 
> discard), you shouldn't be surprised when it runs out of resources.
> 
> Roger

Thanks Roger,
 
Yes, I do mean I can't handle them, sorry. I will try cutting out all of the
useless stuff and give it another go.

Cheers,
Adam



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