[R] Vector Size

[John Kane]

You just have too large a vector for your memory.
There is not much you can do with an object of 500 MG.
 You have over 137 million combinations.

What are you trying to do with this vector?


--- Oscar A <oscaroseroruiz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello everybody!!
> I'm from Colombia (South America) and I'm new on R. 
> I've been trying to
> generate all of the possible combinations for a 6
> number combination with
> numbers that ranges from 1 to 53.
> 
> I've used the following commands:
> 
> datos<-c(1:53)
>
M<-matrix(data=(combn(datos,6,FUN=NULL,simplify=TRUE)),nrow=22957480,ncol=6,byrow=TRUE)
> 
> Once the commands are executed, the program shows
> the following:
> 
> Error: CANNOT ALLOCATE A VECTOR OF SIZE 525.5 Mb
> 
> 
> How can I fix this problem?
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