[R] memory increase for large r simulation

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Sep 28 08:24:05 CEST 2004


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  2.7 There seems to be a limit on the memory it uses!

lokks relevant, and is.  (So was some more info given with that error 
message.)

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, shane stanton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am running R from windows 95. I have a large
> simulation, which R does not get very far through
> before telling me:
> 
> "error  cannot allocate vector of size 871875 Kb"
> 
> and warning message "reached total allocation of 127
> Mb"
> 
> I have been trying to increase the memory allocation
> to R from my computer, using various commands at the R
> prompt, such as memory.limit(size=......) to which R
> responds "NULL" or "cannot decrease memory limit" (no
> matter how large I try to make the argument of
> memory.limit. 
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas re how I can get this
> simulation to run?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Shane Stanton
> 
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