[Rd] Wrong vector size reported by error message

[Oleg Sklyar]

my R-SVN revision is 40458 compared to 40386 yours, could it be 
corrected already?

* ~: R
 > 2**30
[1] 1073741824
 > a<-2:1073741824
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 4194304 Kb
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-22 r40548)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
[7] "base"
 >

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Dr Oleg Sklyar | EBI-EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK | +44-1223-494466


hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my system, I get the following error message:
> 
>   > big <- 2:(2**30)
>   Error: cannot allocate vector of size 0 Kb
> 
> Note the wrong "size 0 Kb" in the message!
> 
> Cheers,
> H.
> 
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-05 r40386)
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
> [7] "base"
> 
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