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:fhilal at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2005 1:05 AM
> To: r-help at 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
>
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