>> I am getting "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 197 MB". >> I know that similar problems were discussed a lot already, but I >> didn't find any satisfactory answers so far! >> >> Details: >> *** I have XP (32bit) with 4GB ram. At the time when the problem >> appeared I had 1.5GB of available physical memory. >> *** I increased R memory limit to 3GB via memory.limit(3000) > > > Have you told Windows to allow processes of more than 2GB?
Yes, I did. But this only matters if R requests a memory block of size bigger than 2GB at one time. As I wrote, I had 1.5GB available of physical memory out of my 4GB. > gc(), I think. Yes, indeed. Many thanks, Adam ______________________________________________ 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.