[R] RE: [S] Dynamic Memory Allocation in R
Liaw, Andy
andy_liaw at merck.com
Fri Oct 17 14:45:36 CEST 2003
> From: Gamal Abdel-Azim [mailto:gamal at crinet.com]
>
> While trying to expand the memory/object size in R, I noticed
> that R might be using
> only heap memory. Is this true? Are all objects in R created
> in the heap not
> allocated? It's not logical that this is the case!! Otherwise
> the whole R project would
> be a total waste of time and resources.
>
> If I am wrong please inform me. How to increase memory.size
> in R? Is there a way
> similar to options(object.size=size) in S-Plus. Notice that
> the command R --max- vsize=N targets the heap memory!
>
> I have recently installed R on a Linux machine (3GB RAM and
> sufficiently large HD).
>
> Sorry for posting to Splus not R. But if R works only in the
> heap, I may not need to
> subscribe to R-news at all.
But only the R folks could give you the definitive answer to this question!
Andy
> Thank You
>
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