Have you tried to check memory limit. You may want to check Memory.limit() Although in most of the cases you can extend limit to 4000.
Also as David mentioned try to run only r and force stop others. Best Regards, Bhupendrasinh Thakre Sent from my iPhone On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:02 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:02 AM, mushira wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am trying out with random forest on party package but am getting an error >> saying : cannot allocate vector of size 564." What would be the problem? the >> coding as below: >> >>> data.controls <- cforest_unbiased(ntree=1000, mtry=3) >>> data.cforest <- cforest(class ~x1+x2+x3, data = Score, >>> controls=data.controls) >> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 564 Kb >> my datasets is of 10 independent variables and 72,000 entries. >> what should I proceed? > > You appear to have the machine resources to handle the problem, but probably > have too much other "stuff" (running programs, open windows, etc) in your > system at this time that is occupying memory, this preventing R from having > contiguous memory that can hold your data object. You should exit R, restart > your computer, do not run any other applications, ... restart R and redo this > analysis. > > -- > David Winsemius, MD > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
