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You are asking for a distance matrix of 10000 points. That has almost 100
million entries, too large for your 1Gb computer (even if only half of it
is stored). What can you usefully do with such a matrix?
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Keizer_71 wrote:
>
> I am trying to calculate the distance metrics, but i keep getting this
error.
> I am very new with R. Am i doing something wrong.
>
>
>> dim(data.sub)
> [1] 10000 140
>
>> dist(data.sub, method = "euclidean", diag = FALSE, upper =
FALSE, p = 2)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 781250 Kb
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Reached total allocation of 1014Mb: see help(memory.size)
> 2: Reached total allocation of 1014Mb: see help(memory.size)
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