Thanks for the responses @Patrik Burns
I'm going to try running on a 64 bit machine. Unfortunately R isn't installed properly on it yet and our admin guy is away, so it'll have to wait. @ Uwe Ligges Unless the program suddenly starts generating masses and masses of data, I don't think this is the problem. I've kept an eye on how much memory the program is using and it's never got more than about 5% of the memory available. On 9/29/09, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > > davew0000 wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running an analysis with the random forest tool. It's being applied to >> a >> data matrix of ~60,000 rows and between about 40 and 200 columns. I get >> the >> same error with all of the data files (Cannot allocate vector of size >> 428.5MB). >> I found dozens of threads regarding this problem, but they never seem to >> be >> concluded. Usually the OP is directed to the memory allocation help file >> (which I haven't understood the solution for linux), and the last post is >> the OP saying they haven't sorted out their problem yet. >> I'm running on a LINUX machine wtih 64GB RAM, so it's not a problem with >> lack of system resources. >> Can anyone tell me how I can get R to allocate larger vectors on Linux? >> > > > 1. Check how much memory R used at the point the error message appeared. If > it is round about 60 Gb, you know that it is lack of resources - for the > given problem. If it is much less (around 2Gb), you might have a 32-bit R > binary or you have some memory quota for your process. > > Uwe Ligges > > > > Many thanks, >> >> Dave >> > [[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.