For vectors and matrices (which are vectors with dim attributes), I believe the memory need to be contiguous, but not for lists.
You still have not indicated which particular "UNIX" you are using. On the 64-bit Linux we have here with 16GB RAM, the R (compiled as 64-bit application) process can use nearly all the physical RAM available, without any setting. Andy > From: Jonathan Greenberg > > > Does UNIX R have a similar command, or does it just take as > much memory as > it needs? On a related note, does the memory have to be contiguous on > either type of system? I am not hitting my max memory even > with the 2gb max > mem set (I'm not even hitting 1.5gb) -- it is giving me > errors such as: > > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 387873 Kb (I should > point out that > this value changes when I simply rerun the previous line). > > There isn't really an easy way of getting around this, since > I'm using the > prune.tree function -- seeing as how its 1 line of code, I > don't see how to > optimize this. > > --j > > On 2/20/04 5:40 AM, "James MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --max-mem-size=2000M > > > -- > Jonathan Greenberg > Graduate Group in Ecology, U.C. Davis > http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu/~jongreen > http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu > AIM: jgrn307 or jgrn3007 > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
