ff package write error

Question

I\'m trying to work with a 1909x139352 dataset using R. Since my computer only has 2GB of RAM, the dataset turns out to be too big (500MB) for the conventional methods. So I dec

Answer 1

Your data set really isn't that big.. It might help if you said something about what you're trying to do with it. this might help: Increasing Available memory in R or if that doesn't work, the data.table package is VERY fast and doesn't hog memory when manipulating data.tables with the := operator.
and as far as read.table.ffdf, check this out.. read.table.ffdf tutorial, if you read carefully, it gives hints and details about optimizing your memory usage with commands like gc() and more.