[R] help with hierarchical clustering

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat Nov 8 22:39:02 CET 2003


Try traceback().

My bet is that the error is in dist(), and you do not have space for the 
distance matrix.  If so you need to reassess what you are doing.

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, ramya sundaram wrote:

> I have a large excel file with data in it. I converted it to a 'csv' format.
> I imported this dataset to R using the follownig command
> mldata <- read.csv("c:\\temp\\mldata.csv", header=T)
>  
> all the column names and the rows seems to be correct.
>  
> Now that I have this object, I need to perfrom hclust. I used the following 
> hc <- hclust(dist(mldata), method="single") 
>  
> I get the following error
>  
> > hc <- hclust(dist(mldata),"ave")
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 622668 Kb
> In addition: Warning messages: 
> 1: NAs introduced by coercion 
> 2: Reached total allocation of 479Mb: see help(memory.size) 
> 
> Can anyone please point where I'm going wrong ?
>  
> Thank you,
> Ramya
> 
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