Hi, I am facing trouble when trying to read large xlsx file into R. please find the code and error below. The file I was trying to read has 36,500 rows X 188 col, ~ 37 MB size.
> options( java.parameters = "-Xmx4g" ) > library(xlsx) Loading required package: xlsxjars Loading required package: rJava > cftc = read.xlsx("d:\\Krishna\\Research\\CFTC_COT\\cftcdata.xlsx", 1) Error in .jcall("RJavaTools", "Ljava/lang/Object;", "invokeMethod", cl, : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > sessionInfo() R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] xlsx_0.5.1 xlsxjars_0.5.0 rJava_0.9-5 Many thanks for the help and guidance. Regards, Krishna [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.