[R] ERROR : cannot allocate vector of size (in MB & GB)

[Rantony]

Hi,

Here in R, I need to load a huge file(.csv) , its size is 200MB. [may come
more than 1GB sometimes].
When i tried to load into a variable it taking too much of time and after
that when i do cbind by groups,
getting an error like this

" Error: cannot allocate vector of size 82.4 Mb "

My requirement is, spilt data from Huge-size-file(.csv) to no. of small csv
files.
Here i will give no of lines to be 'split by' as input.

Below i give my code
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		SplitLargeCSVToMany <- function(DataMatrix,Destination,NoOfLineToGroup)
		{
			test <- data.frame(read.csv(DataMatrix))
			
			# create groups No.of rows 
			group <- rep(1:NROW(test), each=NoOfLineToGroup) 
			new.test <- cbind(test, group=group) 
			new.test2 <- new.test
			new.test2[,ncol(new.test2)] <- NULL
			
			# now get indices to write out 
			indices <- split(seq(nrow(test)), new.test[, 'group'])
			
			# now write out the files 
			for (i in names(indices))
			{ 
			write.csv(new.test2[indices[[i]],], file=paste(Destination,"data.", i,
".csv", sep=""),row.names=FALSE) 
			} 			
		}

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My system Configuration is,
Intel Core2 Duo
speed : 3GHz
2 GB RAM
OS: Windows-XP [ServicePack-3]
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Any hope to solve this issue ?

Thanks in advance,
Antony.




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