On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:51:17PM +0200, will.ea...@gmx.net wrote: > Dear all, > > how can I use R on a 64-bit Windows Server 2003 machine (24GB RAM) with more > than 3GB of working memory and make full use of it. > > I started R --max-mem-size=3G since I got the warning that larger values are > too large and ignored. > > In R I got: > > memory.size(max=FALSE) > [1] 10.5 > > memory.size(max=TRUE) > [1] 12.69 > > memory.limit() > [1] 3072 > > but when I run the next command, I get an error: > >climb.expset <- ReadAffy(celfile.path="./Data/Original/CLIMB/CEL/") > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 2.4 Gb > > Here is the R version I am using: > platform i386-pc-mingw32 > arch i386 > os mingw32 > system i386, mingw32 > version.string R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) > > What can I do?
Maybe you want to consider switching to the 64-bit version of R. -- Regards, Dirk ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.