Matthias,
The raster package can work with extremely large images. I seems unlikely
that your cashes of RGui (not normally a response to being out of memory)
are caused by calls to 'writeRaster'. Please back up your statement by
providing the offending code and info on the objects you are using. I
should also say that your use of "multiple call of the function
'writeRaster'" suggest a misunderstanding of that function -- but it is
hard to know as you provide no context.
Robert

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Matthias Bösling <mboeslin@uni-osnabrueck.de
> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> does anyone knows how to work with big spacial image with a size of more
> than 1 GB? I tried to tile the image in multiple smaller tiles but the
> multiple call of the function 'writeRaster' of the package 'raster' leads
> to crashes of the RGui. How do you solve the problem with big images or
> are ther no possiblities to work in r with big images yet?
>
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Matthias Bösling
>
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