[Rd] Hard memory limit of 16GB under Windows?

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Samuel,

The most important information from your mail was the actual error message:
"cannot allocate vector of size 12.6 Gb".

You'll need to know what code generated this error message. And then figure
out if the code does something sensible. Often that is not the case when
you get a similar error message.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Statisticus / Statistician

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Op di 7 apr. 2020 om 16:16 schreef Samuel Granjeaud IR/Inserm <
samuel.granjeaud using inserm.fr>:

> Hi Tomas,
>
> Many thanks for your answer.
>
> Here is a copy of a fresh session under RStudio, and after a copy under
> Rgui.
> Strangely enough the result of memory.limit() is not the same. Without
> your question I would not have looked to RGui, being used to work with
> RStudio.
>
> The value under RGui sounds to correspond to the total RAM of the
> computer. It makes me noticing that the value is in MB.
>
> The value under Rstudio was so huge (1.759219e+13) that I just
> interpreted it as GB. But I was totally wrong. So in fact I don't know
> what it refers to. The documentation says "For a 64-bit versions of R
> under 64-bit Windows the limit is currently 8Tb.", but it looks like
> being 16TB, which my computer don't have of course.
>
> I still have to understand why my colleague has a problem of memory
> allocation (cannot allocate vector of size 12.6 Gb).
>
> Sorry for the wrong interpretation, but thanks for the help,
> Samuel
>
> --- RStudio
>
> R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
> Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
>  > memory.limit()
> [1] 1.759219e+13
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
> LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.6.3 tools_3.6.3
>  >
>
> --- RGui
>
> R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
> Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
>  > ls()
> character(0)
>  > memory.limit()
> [1] 32627
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
> LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=French_France.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.6.3
>  >
>
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