troubles reading a text file
On Dec 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
Trying read.csv gives this: Error: cannot allocate vector of size 370.5 Mb
That on the other hand suggests you have inadequate machine resources for this job. Perhaps you should be thinking of using other tools than R for this project ... or buying more ram. You should probably have 32 GB for a job this size.
I was wrong about that. The object size in a 64 bit R was: inp 291382512
nrow(inp)
[1] 2820
length(inp)
[1] 18001
(2000 - 1765)*12
[1] 2820 So it seems to be all there. It's considerably smaller than I guessed.
David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA