R help - Jul 2003 - problem with memory size in UNIX

Dear R/Biocondutor users:

I tried to merge two big affybatch data sets in R (under unix mainframe) and
encounter the problems as following:

combine2.3<-merge(combine2.1,TALL)
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 409600 Kb

I do not know what is the problem and how can i fix the problem. any suggustion
will be appreciated.

liping




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liping wrote:
> Dear R/Biocondutor users:
> 
> I tried to merge two big affybatch data sets in R (under unix mainframe)
and encounter the problems as following:
> 
> combine2.3<-merge(combine2.1,TALL)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 409600 Kb
> 
> I do not know what is the problem and how can i fix the problem. any
suggustion will be appreciated.
> 
> liping
> 
> 
> 
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Vector with 500MB are rather big. Are your shure you have enough 
physical memory (and system quotas allow you allocate that amount of 
memeory)? If yes, try to tune with mem.limits(1000000,500000000)