R memory management / cannot allocate vector of size n Mb

Question

I am running into issues trying to use large objects in R. For example:

> memory.limit(4000)
> a = matrix(NA, 1500000, 60)
> a = matrix(NA, 2500000,         


        

Answer 1

If you are running your script at linux environment you can use this command:

bsub -q server_name -R "rusage[mem=requested_memory]" "Rscript script_name.R"

and the server will allocate the requested memory for you (according to the server limits, but with good server - hugefiles can be used)