Re: [R] Problems working with large data

2007-11-15 Thread jim holtman
A little more information might be useful. If your matrix is numeric, then a single copy will require about 250MB of memory. What type of system are you on and how much memory do you have? When you say you are having problems, what are they? Is it a problem reading the data in? Are you getting

[R] Problems working with large data

2007-11-15 Thread pedrosmarques
Hi, I'm working with a numeric matrix with 55columns and 581012 rows and I'm having problems in allocation of memory using some of the functions in R: for example lda, rda (library MASS), princomp(package mva) and mvnorm.etest (energy package). I've read tips to use less memory in help(read.ta