[R] 1024GB max memory on R for Windows XP?

[Roger D. Peng]

See ?Memory.  Setting

memory.limit(2048)

in R may help

-roger

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> I have 2GB installed on my windows XP box running R 1.9.0, and after
> performing a prune.tree(intree,newdata), I get an out of memory error within
> R, but it says the maximum allowed is 1024gb (1/2 of what I have!)  Can R
> not use more than 1GB on an XP box?  I noticed I had ~600mb left over after
> R conked out, so clearly I had more memory...  What about virtual memory?
> 
> --j
>