[R] R and windows server memory limit

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Aug 16 15:34:05 CEST 2010



On 16.08.2010 15:07, McEachron, Luke wrote:
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> I am running R 2.10.1 on Windows Server 03 in an effort to increase my memory limit. The memory limit on my machine is 4 gb and 8 gb on our server. However, when I run R within the server and try to increase my memory R still says I am limited to 4 gb. Any thoughts?

This is a 32-bit version of R, I assume, hence you should get only 2Gb 
per R instance.

If your server is running a 64-bit Windows, you may want to try R-2.11.1 
64-bit or even better try R-devel (its Windows binaries are bi-arch 
32-bit and 64-bit) and let us know about bugs.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



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> Luke McEachron
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