Re: [R] how to work with big matrices and the ff-package?

2010-04-15 Thread Jens Oehlschlägel
Anne,   After the above step I need to convert my ff_matrix to a data.frame to discretize the whole matrix and calculate the mutual information. The calculated result should be saved as an ffdf-object or something similar. disc - as.ffdf(discretize(as.data.frame(as.ffdf(ffmat)),

[R] how to work with big matrices and the ff-package?

2010-04-13 Thread Anne Skoeries
Hello everyone, I need to create and work with some big matrices that actually have somewhat over 2 million columns and 117 rows. To do some calculations on such big matrices R just needs too much memory for my PC (4GB installed). So I need a solution to work with large datasets. I'm trying