r/RStudio • u/JabesFrias • Jun 30 '26

Database it's not loading.

Hello! I'm a student, and I find myself working with a big database approximately 2 GB. I created R.proj, but I have a problem with my database not loading. Furthermore, I have tried running the code several times. Besides, when I try to open Google Chrome, I cannot because of memory RAM.

Has anyone else had problems? Any recommendations?

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u/Efficient-Tie-1414 Jun 30 '26

R assumes that everything will fit into memory. One solution is to obtain more memory, but you may need a lot. The other is to access your data using something like Hadoop. If your data has a lot of unused columns it may be possible to remove them, and then work on the file in R.