Using R to cluster based on euclidean distance and a complete linkage metric, too many vectors?

Question

I am trying to figure out how to read in a counts matrix into R, and then cluster based on euclidean distance and a complete linkage metric. The original matrix has 56,000 rows

Answer 1

You're running out of RAM. That's it. You can't allocate a vector that exceeds your memory space. Move to a computer with more memory or maybe, try use bigmemory (I've never tried it).

https://support.bioconductor.org/p/53848/