[Rd] read.table segfaults

Göran Broström goran.brostrom at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 21:28:22 CEST 2011


 > fil2s <- read.table("../Data/fil2_s.txt", header = FALSE, sep = "\t")

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000000000041c2e1 in RunGenCollect (size_needed=8192000) at memory.c:1514
1514	    PROCESS_NODES();
(gdb)

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-08-25 r56798)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

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

The text file 'fil2_s.txt' is Huge, around 11 million records and 17
variables, but ...?



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Göran Broström



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