On Dec 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > >> >> Trying read.csv gives this: >> >> >> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 370.5 Mb > > That on the other hand suggests you have inadequate machine resources for > this job. Perhaps you should be thinking of using other tools than R for this > project ... or buying more ram. You should probably have 32 GB for a job this > size.
I was wrong about that. The object size in a 64 bit R was: inp 291382512 > nrow(inp) [1] 2820 > length(inp) [1] 18001 > (2000 - 1765)*12 [1] 2820 So it seems to be all there. It's considerably smaller than I guessed. -- David Winsemius 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.