[R] memory limit in R

[Uwe Ligges]

Hongwei Dong wrote:
> Hi, all, I'm doing a discrete choice model in R and kept getting this error:
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 198.6 Mb.
> 
> Does this mean the memory limit in R has been reached?
> 
>> memory.size()
> [1] 1326.89
>> memory.size(TRUE)
> [1] 1336
>> memory.limit()
> [1] 1535
> 
> My laptop has a 4G memory with Windows Vista (32 bit). I increased the
> memory limit to 2500 M. But still getting the same error message. Any one
> can give me some suggestions? Thanks.


See ?Memory and find that more than 2047 Mb is not easily possible on 
your 32-bit  (and might not even be sufficient for your problem).

Uwe Ligges


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