How to allocate vector greater than 2Gb

Asked Jun 24 '15 at 10:16

Active Sep 13 '17 at 06:28

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I was trying to carry out a command in R when I received this error:

d <- daisy(demo, metric = "gower",stand = FALSE, type = list(), weights = 1)
  Error: cannot allocate vector of size 2.3 Gb

Is there a way to allocate more memory to R? Mine is a 64 bit R on Windows. Thanks!

edited Sep 13 '17 at 06:28

neilfws

asked Jun 24 '15 at 10:16

abi

How much RAM in your computer? – Jun 24 '15 at 10:16
8.00GB (7.69 Usable) @Pascal – abi Jun 24 '15 at 10:22
Check `memory.limit()` function. – Jun 24 '15 at 10:25
remove unused objects, stop unused programs (firefox, dropbox, etc...), change OS - so that you have as much RAM as possible available for R... – EDi Jun 24 '15 at 10:26
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Make a quick trip to the electronics market and by some more RAM? – Roland Jun 24 '15 at 10:59
You might also checkout the `data.table` package. It plays nicer with larger data (but I don't know if it would help you in this case). – Richard Erickson Jun 24 '15 at 12:38

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