[R] memory allocation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

There is more to that message you have not reproduced.

I am pretty sure you are on Windows, and you need to read the rw-FAQ (as 
the posting guide asks you too).  See Q2.7.

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Massimiliano Copetti wrote:

> I'm using the Splancs package to compute standard errors of the 
> estimates of a spatio-temporal k function. When I use as spatial and 
> temporal distances too long vectors (respectively 60 and 80 entries) for 
> a dataset of 1000 observations, R gives me the message
>
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 180000 Kb
>
> Reached total allocation of 512 Mb.
>
> I ran the function memory.size() and obtained 392000000 more or less.

Yes, but see its help page for the relevant usage.

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