[R] Cannot allocate memory block

[Uwe Ligges]

On 16.02.2011 22:38, poisontonic wrote:
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> Uwe Ligges-3 wrote:
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>> If the available space got too fragmented, there is not single 3.8 block
>> of memory available any more....
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> Is there anything I can do to prevent this?

If you did it after a fresh reboot: I don't see a way to prevent it.
Nevertheless, I doubt you really have that much memory free in that 
case. Have you inspected how much memory was already allocated by R?

uwe Ligges


I've restarted and rerun the
> whole thing straight up, and still the error...?
>
> Ben