Working with Big Data inR | 213
Let us try to analyse the problem further more deeply and understand them in detail.
Problem 1: Data set size exceeding the available memory size.
In general, most of the personal computers used currently have 16 GB of RAM. Assuming that
20–30% is needed for different system activities and also other application programs, it is fair to
assume that a maximum of 70% of RAM memory, i.e., 11 GB of memory from the available 16GB
RAM memory size can be utilized by the R program. For a computer having less RAM size, say
4 GB, only around 3 GB can be used by R program. In conventional R programming, data frame
object is created in the R workspace, which sits in the RAM. Therefore, by using conventional
R programming, ...