[R] Error: cannot allocate vector of size... but with a twist

[Paul Roebuck]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, James Muller wrote:

> I have a memory problem, one which I've seen pop up in the list a few
> times, but which seems to be a little different. It is the Error: cannot
> allocate vector of size x problem. I'm running R2.0 on RH9.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> R chews up memory up until the 3.5Gb area, then halts. Here's the last
> bit of output:
>

32-bit addressing goes to ~4Gb.

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SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)