On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Charles Novaes de Santana <charles.sant...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Error in matrix(0, 48000, 48000) : too many elements specified" > > but I thought it was a machine limitation (and I was asking for access > to a better machine in my labs...). Thanks for clarifying it. > > Well, when Sarah gave me the answer for my problem, I got a new one :) > Thank you, Sarah and Peter. > > So, is there any other way to "trick R" and allocate such large matrices? >
Either 1) Use the development version of R which has large-vector support (matrices are vectors under the hood) or 2) A large matrix is usually sparse in structure: use one of the many sparse representation packages (e.g., Matrix) available. MW ______________________________________________ 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.
