[R] R for windows 64 bit

Tue Jan 12 22:00:13 CET 2010

On 12.01.2010 21:07, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
> Hi Alessia,
>
> Note that, while your physical limit might be 6 GB, Windows memory
> management allows more memory than that to be allocated (aka Virtual
> Memory, or at least that's what they called it in XP).  Windows swaps
> out memory from RAM to the hard disk and back when necessary (please
> excuse the explanation if you already know all this).  For processing
> large vectors, this swapping might bring your system to a standstill.
> Regardless, the "maximum" memory for a windows process is larger than
> the physical RAM you have available.
>
> allie

In this case 6Gb was the default (as physical maximum in the particular 
machine) and there was bug in the *experimental* version of R that did 
not allow to increase memory size from within R using memory.limit() 
which already has been fixed thanks to Brian Ripley.

Uwe Ligges

> On 1/12/2010 6:27 AM, alessia matano wrote:
>> Fine, it worked. I will try in this way.
>>
>> Just the last question and I won't bother you further today. My
>> machine right now has just 6 giga of RAM (it will be increased to 16
>> in a few days), and I see that with this experimental version
>> memory.limit is 6135.
>>
>> How is the command to increase the memory usage until the maximum I
>> can (5 giga?). If I am writing memory.limit(5000) it still gives me
>> the error:
>>
>> don't be silly! Your machine has a 4Gb address limit
>>
>> which is quite odd.
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Best
>> A.
>>
>> 2010/1/12 alessia matano<alexis.rtd at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> ok, perfect!
>>> I will try with it...many many thanks. Have you got there also the
>>> quantreg package, which has actually the same problem of sparseM
>>> (32bit version)?
>>>
>>> best
>>> alessia
>>>
>>> 2010/1/12 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12.01.2010 12:09, alessia matano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am sorry, I know it is an experimental version, and I have been
>>>>> misleading saying a new version.
>>>>>
>>>>> Therefore, I will wait for when they will be available officially,
>>>>> since it is just a few days.
>>>>>
>>>> Or just use today my private repository I indicated in the other mail.
>>>>
>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> However, I tried also to go to the cran pages and download them and
>>>>> insert into the library. For quantreg it worked, for sparseM it did
>>>>> not probably because it's a win32 version, as you said.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/1/12 Prof Brian Ripley<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, alessia matano wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just download and set this new version of R. I am now trying to
>>>>>>> download the packages I need which are sperseM and quantreg. I
>>>>>>> downloaded and insert into the library file the quantreg pacjkage and
>>>>>>> it seems to work. However, when I try to do the same with sparseM I
>>>>>>> get the following error message:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Loading required package: SparseM
>>>>>>> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>>>>>>>   unable to load shared library
>>>>>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-211~1.0DE/library/SparseM/libs/SparseM.dll':
>>>>>>>   LoadLibrary failure:  %1 non è un'applicazione di Win32 valida.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any help for it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please do refer to the posting referred to in that thread (and Henrique,
>>>>>> please do not post just the URL without the explanations).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-January/056301.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You cannot mix 32-bit Windows binary packages with this experimental port
>>>>>> (it is not a 'new version'): you need to install from the package
>>>>>> sources.
>>>>>>   If that is too difficult for you, please do not try to use unsupported
>>>>>> experimental builds (and Uwe Ligges may have some binary packages
>>>>>> available
>>>>>> for test in a few days).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>>>>> alessia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2010/1/11 Henrique Dallazuanna<wwwhsd at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Try this version (beta of development version):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/Win64/R-2.11.0dev-win64.exe
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:29 PM, alessia matano<alexis.rtd at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> do you know if there is any particular version of R to implement with
>>>>>>>>> windows 64 bit, in such a way to increase the amount of memory it can
>>>>>>>>> use?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> How should I increase the memory, and more importantly to set a higher
>>>>>>>>> max vector size? It still stops me saying "Could not allocate vector
>>>>>>>>> of size 145"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> thanks to all
>>>>>>>>> alessia
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Henrique Dallazuanna
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>>>>>>>>
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