[R] Puzzling "Execution halted"

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le mardi 20 novembre 2012 à 12:54 -0500, Gang Chen a écrit :
> I wrote an R program that does heavy computations with hundreds of
> lines of code. It's running fine both interactively and in batch mode
> on a Mac OS X computer. The program also has no problem running on a
> Linux system (Fedora 14) interactively. However, when I try it on the
> terminal in batch mode on the Linux system, it chokes in the middle of
> the computation with the "Execution halted" error message.
> 
> I already put try or tryCatch in those places where computation may
> throw an error. And the warnings are set in default (options(warn=1)).
> I wish I could provide the code for help, but that seems impractical.
> How to debug this?
Have a look at your /var/log/messages: it might well be the
out-of-memory killer killing your R process because it eats too much
RAM...

My two cents