All- Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to lend. Here is my issue. I am trying to open a fairly large .dat file. The file originally was downloaded as a GZ file but I unzipped it (with 7-zip) into it's current 1.86 gig .dat format. I know that the data is "just a plain ASCII file with 720 columns and 360 rows per time step (month). It should be readable by anything!" There are 1272 steps. Here is what happens when I try to assign the file to an object:
> clds<-read.table("C:\\CRU Data\\TS3.0\\Cloud\\cru_ts_3_00.1901.2006.cld.dat", header = TRUE, row.names = 1) Error in read.table("C:\\CRU Data\\TS3.0\\Cloud\\cru_ts_3_00.1901.2006.cld.dat", : duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed In addition: There were 45 warnings (use warnings() to see them) >warnings() 1: In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, ... : Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size) X 25 26: In type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec, ... : Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size) -- Carson Baughman Cell: (406) 360-9254 University of Alaska Fairbanks Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning [[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.