A 64-bit version of R would be able to handle this (preferably with more RAM), but you don't appear to have one. Check what .Machine$size.pointer says: I expect 4.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Randy Griffiths wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a very large data set (1.1GB) that I am trying to read into R. The > file is tab delimited and contains headers; there are over 800 columns and > almost 700,000 rows. I am using the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon version of R. I > am using Kernel Linux 2.6.22-14-generic. I have 3.1GB of RAM with the AMD > Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+. I downloaded R using the instructions from > cran under Linux-Ubuntu. That's too vague. Do you have an ix86 or x86_66 OS? I see i386 and amd64 builds on that page: which did you install? > I need to be able to read the whole data set into R, but when I try right > now, it will only use 4.2GB of the swap space (50% of the 8.5GB currently > available) and won't go any further. I am new to Linux, but anxious to > learn. Is there a memory constraint with this build of R? or is this > something that can be fixed with hardware (like more RAM)? I thought that a > 64bit version of R would be able to handle data of this magnitude. Is there > a different version of Linux that is better for reading in large data sets > such as this one? > > I know that databases can be used for large data, but i need run > discriminant analysis or randomForest on all of the variables. > > Any of your suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Randy Griffiths > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
