do 'object.size' on all the objects in 'ls()'; also show the output of 'gc()'
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 18, 2009, at 13:35, Hongwei Dong <pdxd...@gmail.com> wrote: > The size of my .Rdata workspace is about 9.2 M and the data I'm > using is the only one object in this workspace. Is it a large one? > > Thanks. > Harry > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:21 AM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> > wrote: > About 2GB is the limit of the address space on 32-bit windows (you can > get upto 3GB with a special flag; check the documentation). Check the > size of the other objects your workspace and remove any you don't need > anymore. A rule of thumb is that your largest object should only be > at most 25% of the available space; in your case I would limit it to > at most 500MB, but try to get by with a smaller object. Since > everything is kept in memory, you need to conserve. You never did say > what you were doing or how large the objects were you were working on. > > If they are large, think about keeping the data in a database and only > retrieving the portion you need. Try to run with a smaller sample. > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Hongwei Dong<pdxd...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, all, I'm doing a discrete choice model in R and kept getting > this error: > > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 198.6 Mb. > > > > Does this mean the memory limit in R has been reached? > > > >> memory.size() > > [1] 1326.89 > >> memory.size(TRUE) > > [1] 1336 > >> memory.limit() > > [1] 1535 > > > > My laptop has a 4G memory with Windows Vista (32 bit). I increased > the > > memory limit to 2500 M. But still getting the same error message. > Any one > > can give me some suggestions? Thanks. > > > > Harry > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
