[R] memory allocation error message

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Prodromos Zanis" <pzanis at geol.uoa.gr> writes:

> Dear all
> 
> I use the library(netCDF) to read in NCEP data. The file I want to
> read has size 113 Mb. When i try to read it I get the following
> message:
> 
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 221080 Kb
> In addition: Warning message: 
> Reached total allocation of 255Mb: see help(memory.size) 
> 
> I get a similar message when I try to read a file with 256 Mb in a
> PC with 2 GigaByte RAM.
> 
> Is there something that I can do to handle this problem of reading
> big netCDF files with R-project.

Did you read help(memory.size)? and follow instructions therein?

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