[Rd] Memory problem 2 (PR#815)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

> From: Z.Barta@bristol.ac.uk
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:22:40 +0100 (MET)
> To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Rd] Memory problem 2 (PR#815)
> CC: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> X-Loop: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> 
> 
> Dear R-developer,
> 
> Just some more details on the problem I reported several minutes ago.
> On an NT machine (4.0 SP6) I got the following for the same task:
> 
> > version
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     x86            
> os       Win32          
> system   x86, Win32     
> status                  
> major    1              
> minor    2.0            
> year     2000           
> month    12             
> day      15             
> language R              
> > setwd("d:/ftp")
> NULL
> > source("O.dat.R")
> > F12 <- O.dat("food12")
> Read 92669 lines
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 723 Kb
> > 
> 
> I hope this help a bit more.

It doesn't.  On Windows, we need to know what you set --max-mem-size
to, and if you did not, what memory.size(max=TRUE) says and what your
physical memory is.

All this tells us is that you ran out of allocatable memory.  That's
not a bug.

-- 
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