[R] long vectors not supported yet

[Jeff Newmiller]

This looks to me like a package development issue... which may be under discussion in R-sig-geo (search the archives), but more likely to be appropriate to discuss with the maintainer by email or through their development repository (R-forge, though it looks unused).
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On February 14, 2018 7:43:51 AM PST, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am running R 3.3.3 and getting the following error:
>
>Error in add_edges(res, edges = t(as.matrix(el[, 1:2])), attr = weight)
>: 
>   long vectors not supported yet: ../../src/include/Rinlinedfuns.h:138
>
>when passing a 13 GB TransitionLayer object to shortestPath from the
>package 'gdistance'.
>
>The error, albeit in a different context, is discussed here:
>
>  https://github.com/tidyverse/readr/issues/309
>  https://github.com/tidyverse/readr/pull/433
>
>However it is not clear to me quite what the fix was and what kind of
>limit may still exist in subsequent R versions.
>
>Is this a general problem/issue with R, or is this something more
>package-specific which should be addressed on R-sig-Geo?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Loris