kmeans: Quick-TRANSfer stage steps exceeded maximum

Question

I am running k-means clustering in R on a dataset with 636,688 rows and 7 columns using the standard stats package: kmeans(dataset, centers = 100, nstart = 25

Answer 1

Had the same problem, seems to have something to do with available memory.

Running Garbage Collection before the function worked for me:

gc()

or reference:

Increasing (or decreasing) the memory available to R processes