[R-sig-Geo] Memory...

tobias.scholl at nephele-idea.de tobias.scholl at nephele-idea.de
Thu Mar 7 12:58:01 CET 2013


Hi Maurizio,

Indeed, you might get troubles with your RAM, when using huge data  
frames in R since they are completely loaded into the RAM.
What could help you is the Big memory Package.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigmemory/index.html

Cheers,
Tobias


Quoting Maurizio Marchi <mauriziomarchi85 at gmail.com>:

> Hi everybody,
> I have to calculate some new columns in a data frame with 1971000   
> lines adding
> 57 new columns but R crashes every time...
> I think it's a problem of memory allocation, so I would like to know how I
> can change the memory settings...
> I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Maurizio Marchi
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