[Rd] Memory Leak in OS X versions? (PR#6903)

[stefano iacus]

I can confirm the behaviour (btw, 1.9.0 is not beta) in 1.9.0 and in 
R-patched

I'll try to investigate.
stefano


On May 21, 2004, at 3:24 PM, dvanbrunt at well-wired.com wrote:

> Full_Name: David L. Van Brunt
> Version: 1.8-1.9 beta
> OS: OS X 10.3
> Submission from: (NULL) (68.74.58.109)
>
>
> As posted on R-Help (after which another user replicated the problem):
> ---------------
> This is the conclusion from a prior thread ([R] " cannot allocate 
> vector of
> length 1072693248") which ended with no other answer but that there 
> must be
> a problem in the OS X version of R, or in the compile of the source on 
> OS X.
>
> I’ve posted code and data here:
> http://www.well-wired.com/reflibrary/uploads/1084503247.zip
>
> If you setwd() into the directory that is made, then “source()” the 
> “.R”
> file, it should run fine on Windows but crash on any machine with OS X
> (Panther) giving: “Error in as.vector(data) : cannot allocate vector of
> length 1073741824” after a few iterations of the loop.
>
> I've repeated this on a Powerbook G4 with 500 MB of RAM, an iMac with 
> 128M
> of RAM, and a Dual 2GHz G5 with 1.5 Gig of RAM. Have used the Raqua, 
> the
> Frameworks installation, and a fresh compile of the source using Fink 
> in the
> X11 implementation. No matter the machine or the version (1.8x through 
> 1.9,
> OS X or Unix X11), I get the same result.
>
> Thanks to Andy Liaw for helping me tune the code this far.
>
> I'm stumped. Would love to hear others' experience with this, and if 
> they
> can reproduce the problem elsewhere.
>
>
> -- 
> David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D.
> Outlier Consulting & Development
> mailto: <ocd at well-wired.com>
>
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