[R] Memory.limit

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is on Windows only.  The units for setting are in Mb (to avoid 
overflow problems above 2Gb).


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 partha_bagchi at hgsi.com wrote:

> I am playing with memory limits and trying to understand how R allocates 
> and increases available memory.

This is not the setting for that.  This controls the internal malloc's 
limits.

> Here is what I have:
> 
> > memory.limit()
> [1] 536068096
> > memory.limit(size = memory.limit()*2)
> Error in memory.size(size) : cannot decrease memory limit
> > memory.limit(size = 1024^3)
> Error in memory.size(size) : cannot decrease memory limit
> > memory.limit(size = 1073741824)
> Error in memory.size(size) : cannot decrease memory limit
> >
> > version
>          _ 
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386 
> os       mingw32 
> system   i386, mingw32 
> status 
> major    1 
> minor    9.1 
> year     2004 
> month    06 
> day      21 
> language R 
> >

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