R help - Dec 2008 - bigmemory with reshape?

Hello,

I am running into memory boundaries and would like to try to make use of the
bigmemory (or any other memory enabling) library.
Can anyone help with suggestions as to how this might work?
> library(reshape)
> s <- melt( d[,1:62], id=c(1) )
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 16.0 Mb
> library(bigmemory)
I am reading http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigmemory/bigmemory.pdf but
am unclear as to a work-around.
I'm currently on linux, R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20).

thanks in advance,
Avram