[R] R 2.10.0: Error in gsub/calloc

[Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres]

Try the patch version... 
Maybe is the same problem I had with large
database when using gsub()

HTH

El mar, 03-11-2009 a las 20:31 +0100, Richard R. Liu escribió:
> I apologize for not being clear.  d is a character vector of length  
> 158908.  Each element in the vector has been designated by sentDetect  
> (package: openNLP) as a sentence.  Some of these are really  
> sentences.  Others are merely groups of meaningless characters  
> separated by white space.  strapply is a function in the package  
> gosubfn.  It applies to each element of the first argument the regular  
> expression (second argument).  Every match is then sent to the  
> designated function (third argument, in my case missing, hence the  
> identity function).  Thus, with strapply I am simply performing a  
> white-space tokenization of each sentence.  I am doing this in the  
> hope of being able to distinguish true sentences from false ones on  
> the basis of mean length of token, maximum length of token, or similar.
> 
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> On Nov 3, 2009, at 18:30 , Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > richard.liu at pueo-owl.ch wrote:
> >> 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:
> >
> >
> > What is strapply() and what is d?
> >
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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
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