[R] accessing virtual memory

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Michael Roberts wrote:

> Hello R users,
>
> I am doing some work with a large data set but am running out
> of memory.  I understand that R dynamically loads memory as
> it needs it, but for some reason it cannot seem to find my virtual
> memory.  It's limit is about 256M (my hard memory) regardless
> of the amount of virtual memory. I'm running R 1.30 on Windows
> NT.
>
> Am I missing an easy fix here?

See the rw-FAQ, question

  2.4 There seems to be a limit on the memory it uses!

Also, you will get a message when it runs out saying

Reached total allocation of 255Mb: see help(memory.size)

and you could always as a last resort do as it says ....


I should say that on Windows 9x systems you really don't want to use your
virtual memory, and for NT/2000 you will see a large performance hit.

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