[R] increasing memory

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Janet Rosenbaum wrote:

> Hi.  I want to use R with very large files, a couple hundred megabytes,
> but R crashes every time that I try.

If it actually crashes there is a bug, but I suspect that it stops with an
error message -- please do read the posting guide and tell us exactly what
happens.

> Reading help files seems to indicate that R ought to manage its memory
> itself.  I know I have enough memory since stata handles these files 
> perfectly well.  

That tells you very little: R and stata work in different ways.  How much 
memory do you have?

> I have a mac running OS 10.3 and am running RAqua 1.8.1.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to make it deal with these files successfully?

Start by giving us the information requested in the posting guide.

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