[R] Out of memory

[Nikolaus Hansen]

During a R session (Version 1.4.1 under Windows) I ended up getting the following error message:

  Error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?)

independently of the command like rm(something), q(), ls(), gc(), memory.size(), memory.limit(300000000), ...

What could I do now to save my data? How could I prevent this situation?

Thanks for any hint, 
Nikolaus Hansen
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