[R] Calculating Distance Metrics using Euclidean

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Keizer_71 wrote:

>
> I am trying to calculate the distance metrics, but i keep getting this error.
> I am very new to R. Am i doing something wrong.

Cross-posting: see the thread at

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-February/048452.html

where your question has already been answered.

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>
>> dim(data.sub)
> [1] 10000   140
>
>> dist(data.sub, method = "euclidean", diag = FALSE, upper = FALSE, p = 2)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 781250 Kb
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Reached total allocation of 1014Mb: see help(memory.size)
> 2: Reached total allocation of 1014Mb: see help(memory.size)
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