Try putting "memory limit linux" or "mem.limits" in the nabble help. Or type
?mem.limits in the R gui.
Also have a look at:
http://www.nabble.com/RAM%2C-swap%2C-Error%3A-cannot-allocate-vector-of-size%2C-Linux%3A-tt11680213.html#a11680213
Think you also need to check / understand how R deals with
Example 6e of
http://code.google.com/p/sqldf/#Example_6._File_Input
shows how to use the sqldf package to read a sample of rows
from a file without reading the file itself into R.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Dongyan Song wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I want to read a 1.2 G file with 136,736,218
Dear all,
I want to read a 1.2 G file with 136,736,218 numbers with scan function, and
then want make a histogram with those numbers, but it showed Error: cannot
allocate vector of size 2.0 Gb. How can I import the file then?
The version I used:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i686
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