[R] R 2.10.0: Error in gsub/calloc

[richard.liu at pueo-owl.ch]

I'm running R 2.10.0 under Mac OS X 10.5.8; however, I don't think this
is a Mac-specific problem.

I have a very large (158,908 possible sentences, ca. 58 MB) plain text
document d which I am
trying to tokenize:  t <- strapply(d, "\\w+", perl = T).  I am
encountering the following error:

Error in base::gsub(pattern, rs, x, ...) :
  Calloc could not allocate (-1398215180 of 1) memory

This happens regardless of whether I run in 32- or 64-bit mode.  The
machine has 8 GB of RAM, so
I can hardly believe that RAM is a problem.

Thanks,
Richard