Are you running a 64-bit version of R? It sounds like your operating system is not giving you enough memory. It looks like this is not under Windows in a native mode.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Benton, Paul <hpaul.bento...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > Posting for a friend > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Geier, Florian" > <florian.geie...@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:florian.geie...@imperial.ac.uk>> > Subject: Fwd: readBin fails to read large files > Date: September 1, 2011 4:10:53 PM GMT+01:00 > To: > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: 1 September 2011 16:01:45 GMT+01:00 > Subject: readBin fails to read large files > > Dear all, > > I am trying to read a large file (~2GB) of unsigned ints into R. Using the > command: > > raw<-readBin("file",n=10^8, integer(),endian="little",signed=FALSE) > > It works fine for n=10^8, but fails for n=10^9 (or even at n=6*10^8). My > machine$sizeof.long is 8 bit. > I am running R 2.13.1 on a x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) > architecture. > > Thanks for your help > > Florian > > -- > AXA doctoral fellow > Bundy lab - Biomolecular Medicine > Imperial College London > > > > > > -- > AXA doctoral fellow > Bundy lab - Biomolecular Medicine > Imperial College London > > > > > > > [[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. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
