Jean-Pierre Dube wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I seem to be encountering RAM problems using R. I am currently running R > 2.2.0 in Windows XP version 2002. My computer has 4 GB of RAM. The > problem I am encountering is that R does not seem to allow me to obtain > more than 1.5GB of RAM as I construct various matrices. > > I have already pre-allocated 3.5 GB of RAM as in the command line I entered > under "Target": "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.2.0\bin\Rgui.exe" > --max-mem-size=3500Mb. > > However, R still seems to be blocked at 1.5GB. Once I have more than about > 1.5 GB of RAM allocated to the various objects in memory, I get an error > that R cannot allocate the matrix. > > Is there an internal RAM limit for R? Are there any work-arounds?
There is a theoretical limit is 2Gb - and this is an operating system issue. Anyway, ?"Memory-limits" describes how to get more. Uwe Ligges > Thank you very much, > > JP > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > Jean-Pierre H. Dube > Associate Professor > University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business > 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue > Chicago, Illinois 60637 > > tel 773-834-5377 > fax 773-702-0458 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: gsb.uchicago.edu/fac/jean-pierre.dube > ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html