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450k methylation data: error loading

I'm having trouble loading the series matrix data into R. I downloaded the file from this link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE60132

I then saved it on my desktop. Below is the code and error message I'm getting.

setwd("C:/Users/Nick/Desktop")
data <- read.delim(file = "GSE60132_series_matrix.txt")
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 349.1 Mb
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  Reached total allocation of 8048Mb: see help(memory.size)
2: In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  Reached total allocation of 8048Mb: see help(memory.size)
3: In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  Reached total allocation of 8048Mb: see help(memory.size)
4: In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  Reached total allocation of 8048Mb: see help(memory.size)

data <- read.delim(file = "GSE60132_series_matrix.txt", row.names=1)
illumina r geo methylation 450k

1 answer

You're running out of memory, you might want to try a different computer (or possibly reboot and do this first with nothing else running...perhaps you'll have enough free then).

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