[R] Testing memory limits in R??

[Scott Zentz]

Hello Everyone,

    We have recently purchased a server which has 64GB of memory running 
a 64bit OS and I have compiled R from source with the following config

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/R-2.9.1 --enable-Rshlib 
--enable-BLAS-shlib --enable-shared --with-readline --with-iconv 
--with-x --with-tcktk --with-aqua --with-libpng --with-jpeglib

and I would like to verify that I can use 55GB-60GB of the 64GB of 
memory within R. Does anyone know how this is possible? Will R be able 
to access that amount of memory from a single process? I am not an R 
user myself but I just wanted to test this before I turned the server 
over to the researchers..

Thanks!
-scz