On Ubuntu 10.04 it ran fine, albeit in a machine with lots of memory, it seems to work fine. Here's the output: > rm(list=ls()) > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 131881 7.1 350000 18.7 350000 18.7 Vcells 128838 1.0 786432 6.0 559631 4.3 > p <- 500 > n <- 300 > set.seed(1234) > x <- matrix(rnorm(n*p), n, p) > sih <- var(x) > b <- svd(sih) > > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 133536 7.2 350000 18.7 350000 18.7 Vcells 1030006 7.9 2644909 20.2 2536523 19.4 >
> sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > Maybe another 11.04 glitch. JN On 06/04/2011 06:00 AM, r-help-requ...@r-project.org wrote: > Message: 93 > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:55:06 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matias Salibian-Barrera <msalib...@yahoo.ca> > To: "R-help@r-project.org" <R-help@r-project.org> > Subject: [R] R Crashes when using "large" matrices (Ubuntu 11.04) > Message-ID: <75655.88533...@web161614.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > This simple SVD calculation (commands are copied > immediately below) crashes on my Ubuntu machine (R 2.13.0). However it > works fine on my Windows 7 machine, so I suspect there's a problem with > (my?) Ubuntu and / or R. Can anybody else reproduce it (with Ubuntu > 11.04)? Thanks in advance. > > p <- 500 > n <- 300 > set.seed(1234) > x <- matrix(rnorm(n*p), n, p) > sih <- var(x) > b <- svd(sih) > ______________________________________________ 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.