[R] troubles reading a text file

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

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>> Trying read.csv gives this:
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>> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 370.5 Mb
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> 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.

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA