[R] R process gets killed spontaneously

[Peng Yu]

2009/11/10 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
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> Peng Yu wrote:
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>> My R process has been killed for a few times, although the system
>> administrator did not do so. It happened when R attempted to allocate
>> a lot of memory. I'm wondering whether R would spontaneously kill
>> itself if it can not allocate enough memory?
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> It does not kill itself. If it was not some out-of-memory kill process of
> your OS, then you may have seen some segfault. We need reproducible code and
> all the details described in the posting guide.

Please see this thread about the necessary information.

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg74804.html