title: kmeans: Quick-TRANSfer stage steps exceeded maximum
body: <p>I am running k-means clustering in R on a dataset with 636,688 rows and 7 columns using the standard <code>stats</code> package: <code>kmeans(dataset, centers = 100, nstart = 25, iter.max = 20)</code>. </p>
  
  <p>I get the following error: <code>Quick-TRANSfer stage steps exceeded maximum (= 31834400)</code>, and although one can view the code at <a href="http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/stats/R/kmeans.R">http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/stats/R/kmeans.R</a> - I am unsure as to what is going wrong. I assume my problem has to do with the size of my dataset, but I would be grateful if someone could clarify once and for all what I can do to mitigate the issue.</p>