[R] Huge matrix: allocation works but assignment fails

[Ben Bolker]

> Remi wrote:

> 
> > (Failed to allocate a vector of size...)
> > What can I do? And, maybe even more important, how can one explains such 
> > a behavior?

 If your matrices are not sparse, get more memory. If they are,

 help("sparseMatrix",package=Matrix) ?