[R-SIG-Mac] Increase heap space of openNLP

[Richard R. Liu]

Excellent!  Thank-you.

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:04:49 -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:44 , Richard R. Liu wrote:
> 
> > Many thanks for your reply.  I'm afraid I'm very new at all this.  I  
> > really
> > don't know where to set the Java parameter -Xmx.
> 
> If the packages you use don't override default settings you can 
> simply  set (example for 2GB):
> 
> options(java.parameters="-Xmx2g")
> 
> If they do, you can make 100% sure that they won't be able to by  
> running the following before loading any packages:
> 
> library(rJava)
> .jinit(parameters="-Xmx2g")
> 
> The above examples sets the heap to 2GB of memory -- but make sure 
> you  have that much memory otherwise Java won't accept it.
> 
> On the command line (Terminal) type "java -X" to see the Java  
> parameters you can set.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> >  In most applications that are written in Java for the Mac, there is  
> > usually some way to set those parameters in the .plist of the app.   
> > I don't find any such section for R.app or R64.app.  I have located  
> > the openNLP package in ~/Libraries/R/Library/2.9, but I don't see  
> > anything there.  I obviously looked in R-help for "increase heap  
> > space", etc., before posing the question.
> > Could you be a bit more specific about where to set this parameter?   
> > Everything I do in R I do through the R GUI.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:41:51 -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote
> >> On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Richard R. Liu wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm not sure whether this question belongs in this SIG or in the R-
> >>> help mail list.
> >>>
> >>> I'm running R 2.9.2 "Leopard" version on a MacBook Pro 17" early
> >>> 2009 laptop
> >>> with OS X 10.5.8.  Due to memory problems I am running the 64-bit
> >>> version of
> >>> R.app, R64.  When I sentDetect I get a an out-of-memory Java heap
> >>> space
> >>> exception.  How can increase the heap space to avoid this error?
> >>>
> >>
> >> set -Xmx Java parameter (see java -X)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Simon
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >


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