[R] Erro: cannot allocate vector of size 216.0 Mb

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Jul 21 10:19:09 CEST 2008


Several questions:

- Before we go ahead: Are you sure 3 Gb are sufficient for your problem?
- Which OS (I guess Windows)?
- Which version of R (let's assume R-2.7.1)?
- Is your Windows 3GB enabled in the boot flags, or is it a 64-bit 
version of Windows?


Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges



José Augusto Jr. wrote:
> Please,
> 
> I have a 2GB computer and a huge time-series to embedd, and i tried
> increasing memory.limit() and memory.size(max=TRUE), but nothing.
> 
> Just before the command:
> 
>> memory.size(max=TRUE)
> [1] 13.4375
>> memory.limit()
> [1] 1535.875
>> gc()
>          used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
> Ncells 209552  5.6     407500 10.9   350000  9.4
> Vcells 125966  1.0     786432  6.0   496686  3.8
> 
> 
> I  increased the memory limit:
> 
>> memory.limit(3000)
> NULL
>> memory.limit()
> [1] 3000
>> memory.size()
> [1] 11.33070
>> memory.size(max=TRUE)
> [1] 13.4375
>> gc()
>          used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
> Ncells 209552  5.6     407500 10.9   350000  9.4
> Vcells 125964  1.0     786432  6.0   496686  3.8
> 
> 
> And even trying to increase the memory.limits, i still get and error.
> 
> Any sugestions?
> 
> 
> Thanks in  advance.
> 
> jama
> 
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