[R] Problems working with large matrix (using package R.huge)

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Hi,

I'm sorry, but I will most likely withdraw R.huge from CRAN anytime
soon.  The File***Matrix classes had some problems, which when solved
made it too slow.  See BufferedMatrix package in Bioconductor instead.

/Henrik

On 09/12/2007, pedrosmarques at portugalmail.pt
<pedrosmarques at portugalmail.pt> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Since I was having several problems trying to work with a large matrix I started to use the package R.huge but I'm having the following problem
>
> > x<-FileByteMatrix("covtype.data",nrow=581012,ncol=55)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 770.8 Mb
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Reached total allocation of 447Mb: see help(memory.size) in: readChar(con = con, nchar = len)
> 2: Reached total allocation of 447Mb: see help(memory.size) in: readChar(con = con, nchar = len)
> 3: Reached total allocation of 447Mb: see help(memory.size) in: readChar(con = con, nchar = len)
> 4: Reached total allocation of 447Mb: see help(memory.size) in: readChar(con = con, nchar = len)
>
>
> How can I solve this??
>
> Best regards
>
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