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problem with memory size in UNIX
2 messages · liping, M.Kondrin
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liping wrote:
Dear R/Biocondutor users: I tried to merge two big affybatch data sets in R (under unix mainframe) and encounter the problems as following: combine2.3<-merge(combine2.1,TALL) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 409600 Kb I do not know what is the problem and how can i fix the problem. any suggustion will be appreciated. liping [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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Vector with 500MB are rather big. Are your shure you have enough physical memory (and system quotas allow you allocate that amount of memeory)? If yes, try to tune with mem.limits(1000000,500000000)