text: user1075: I want to load a GFF (annotation) file into an R data frame in order to extract some information from it, e.g. the location of transposons in the genome.
  I used the following code:
  library(rtracklayer)
  gff <- rtracklayer::import('c_elegans.PRJNA13758.WS263.annotations.gff3.gz')
  Error: cannot allocate vector of size 210.2 Mb
  
  It seems that the GFF3 file is too big for loading into R. Do you know if this is limited by R or by my computer's memory?
  I ran this on a GNU/Linux computer.
  
  user939: It depends of course on your available RAM on your computer.
  Under Windows you can increase the available RAM in R with memory limit:
  > memory.limit()
  [1] 8070
  > memory.limit(size=10000)
  [1] 10000
  > memory.limit()
  [1] 10000
  
  But that is not necessary on linux/unix.
  
original_text: 1075: <p>I want to load a GFF (annotation) file into an R data frame in order to extract some information from it, e.g. the location of transposons in the genome.</p>
  
  <p>I used the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>library(rtracklayer)
  gff &lt;- rtracklayer::import('c_elegans.PRJNA13758.WS263.annotations.gff3.gz')
  Error: cannot allocate vector of size 210.2 Mb
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems that the GFF3 file is too big for loading into R. Do you know if this is limited by R or by my computer's memory?</p>
  
  <p>I ran this on a GNU/Linux computer.</p>
   939: <p>It depends of course on your available RAM on your computer.</p>
  
  <p>Under Windows you can increase the available RAM in R with memory limit:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; memory.limit()
  [1] 8070
  &gt; memory.limit(size=10000)
  [1] 10000
  &gt; memory.limit()
  [1] 10000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that is not necessary on linux/unix.</p>
  