[Rd] More Detail on "Error : vector memory exhausted (limit reached?)"

[Tomas Kalibera]

On 11/27/23 05:42, ivo welch wrote:
> Would it be possible to enhance this error message?  Could the message say
> how large the limit was that was reached?  Is it that the limit for one
> particular vector has been exceeded (and to how much would it have grown
> vs. how much was allowed?), or is it that the entire memory space has been
> exceeded (and rm'ing other objects could fix this)?

It is the latter, as the message says, the vector memory is exhausted. 
Even after a gc is executed, there is not enough free memory on the 
vector heap to allocate the vector. See ?Memory and ?mem.maxVSize for 
more. Use mem.maxVSize() to see if there is any limit set - the default 
is platform dependent.

In principle, yes, removing objects could fix this.

Tomas


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