[R] Error: cannot allocate vector of size

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 01:44:36 CEST 2011


Assuming that your column are numeric, you would need 4GB of memory
just to store one copy of the object.  If this is 5 years, then you
would need almost 1GB for a copy, but the processing probably will use
up twice as much as it is processing.  Try reading a month's worth and
see how much you use.  In problems like this, you creep up on it; you
just try to jump in all at once.  Do it in increments and watch the
usage.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, xin123620 <chengxin.dai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Jholtman.
> Now count is 46001902. I was trying to retrieve one-year data, but I still
> receive the following message:
> "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 64.0 Mb"
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Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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