[R] Cannot allocate memory of size x on Linux - what's the solution?

Hi all, I'm running an analysis with the random forest tool. It's being applied to a data matrix of ~60,000 rows and between about 40 and 200 columns. I get the same error with all of the data files (Cannot allocate vector of size 428.5MB). I found dozens of threads regarding this problem, but

Re: [R] Cannot allocate memory of size x on Linux - what's the solution?

davew wrote: Hi all, I'm running an analysis with the random forest tool. It's being applied to a data matrix of ~60,000 rows and between about 40 and 200 columns. I get the same error with all of the data files (Cannot allocate vector of size 428.5MB). I found dozens of threads

Re: [R] Cannot allocate memory of size x on Linux - what's the solution?

Thanks for the responses @Patrik Burns I'm going to try running on a 64 bit machine. Unfortunately R isn't installed properly on it yet and our admin guy is away, so it'll have to wait. @ Uwe Ligges Unless the program suddenly starts generating masses and masses of data, I don't think this is