Hello, It is not the right way to read a NetCDF file (according to the extension) in R. Please have a look at the "ncdf4" package. The "raster" package is also able to read this kind of files.
Regards, Pascal On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:25 AM, eliza botto <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 > [[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. -- Pascal Oettli Project Scientist JAMSTEC Yokohama, Japan ______________________________________________ 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.