I think you may need to check the list for posts relating to "memory", "large datasets", etc http://cran.r-project.org/search.html
It would help those on the list, if you gave more details about the machine you are using. Given the vintage of R you areusing is considered quite old, there is the possibility that you are using a machine with 256 Mb of RAM in which case it is likely you have hit a barrier that requires you to think about alternative ways of processing your data. The reason I suggest you serach the posts yourself rather than give advice is that there are many possibilities which depend on information you have that I don't, about other software you have such as sql databases or you may understand better than I do some of the posts about sparse matrices. Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Fairouz Makhlouf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2005 1:05 AM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] reading a 40kb csv file in R > > > I am trying to read a matrix of 5000*2000 from a csv > file of real numbers in R using the scan function. I > am getting an error saying that R can not read a > vector > 32KB and it can't allocate a memory of 191 MB > etc. > > What should I do. I am using R1.7.1. > > Thanks > > ===== > Thanks > Fairouz Makhlouf > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
