[R] bigmemory not really parallel

Hi, all, I have a really big matrix that I want to run k-means on. I tried: >data <- read.big.memory('mydata.csv',type='double',backingfile='mydata.bin',descriptorfile='mydata.desc') I'm using doMC to register multicore. >library(doMC) >registerDoMC(cores=8) >ans<-bigkmeans(data,k) In system moni

[R] kmeans clustering on large but sparse matrix

Hi, I have a 60k*600k matrix, which exceed the vector length limit of 2^32-1. But it's rather sparse, only 0.02% has value. So I save is as MarketMatrix (mm) file, it's about 300M in size. I use readMM in Matrix package to read it in. If do so, the data type becomes dgTMatrix in 'Matrix' package i