[R] cannot allocate vector of size n

[Michael Hannon]

(1) That's an old version of R Studio, although I doubt that that's
the source of your problem.

(2) What is your session info?

    > sessionInfo()
or
    > devtools::session_info()

I just allocated a numeric vector of size 2.5e9 on a 16GB linux box (R
3.4.3).  It worked, but it pretty much exhausted my memory.

-- Mike


On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Sahar Ansari <s.anssarii at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a memory problem,when I am running my code with RStudio-1.0.143
> (64bit) on windows 2012 server with 6 GB ram (VPS)
>
> I receive the following error message:
>
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 2.5 Gb
>
> I used to run this source code on this machine with no difficulty . I
> haven't changed the source code and the specification of the machine
> whereas I'm facing this error recently.
>
> I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts or suggestions that you might have.
>
>
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
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