Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Greetings, Just a follow up on this problem. I am not sure where the problem lies, but we think it is the users code and/or CRAN plugin that may be the cause. We have been getting pretty familiar with R recently and we can allocate and load large datasets into 10+GB of memory. One of our other

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-16 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 16, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Stackpole, Chris wrote: Greetings, Just a follow up on this problem. I am not sure where the problem lies, but we think it is the users code and/or CRAN plugin that may be the cause. We have been getting pretty familiar with R recently and we can allocate

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? [snip] In short, we don't have a solution yet to this explicit problem You may consider this to be an explicit problem but it doesn't read like something

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-14 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? It appears that at the shell level, the differences are not to blame. It has been a long time, but years ago in HP-UX, we needed to change an actual

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-14 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Jack Challen [mailto:jack.chal...@ocsl.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:45 AM Subject: RE: Memory limit on Linux? (I'm replying from a horrific WebMail UI. I've attempted to maintain what I think is sensible quoting. Hopefully it reads ok). [snip] If all users are able to

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-13 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? What does ulimit -a report on both of these machines? Greetings, Sorry for the delay. Other fires demanded more attention... For the system in which

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-13 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
On 08/13/2013 03:06 PM, Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? What does ulimit -a report on both of these machines? Greetings, Sorry for the delay. Other fires demanded

[R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-12 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Greetings, I have a user who is running an R program on two different Linux systems. For the most part, they are very similar in terms of hardware and 64bit OS. However, they perform significantly different. Under one box the program uses upwards of 20GB of ram but fluctuates around 15GB of ram

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-12 Thread Kevin E. Thorpe
On 08/12/2013 10:18 AM, Stackpole, Chris wrote: Greetings, I have a user who is running an R program on two different Linux systems. For the most part, they are very similar in terms of hardware and 64bit OS. However, they perform significantly different. Under one box the program uses upwards

Re: [R] Memory limit for Windows 64bit build of R

2012-08-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:52 PM, alan.x.simp...@nab.com.au wrote: Dear all I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise machine, with 64bit R installed running on 2 x Quad-core Intel Xeon 5500 processor with 24GB DDR3 1066 Mhz RAM. I am seeking to analyse very large data sets (perhaps as much

Re: [R] Memory limit for Windows 64bit build of R

2012-08-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 06.08.2012 09:34, David Winsemius wrote: On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:52 PM, alan.x.simp...@nab.com.au wrote: Dear all I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise machine, with 64bit R installed running on 2 x Quad-core Intel Xeon 5500 processor with 24GB DDR3 1066 Mhz RAM. I am seeking to

Re: [R] Memory limit for Windows 64bit build of R

2012-08-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 06/08/2012 09:42, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 06.08.2012 09:34, David Winsemius wrote: On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:52 PM, alan.x.simp...@nab.com.au wrote: Dear all I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise machine, with 64bit R installed running on 2 x Quad-core Intel Xeon 5500 processor with 24GB

Re: [R] Memory limit for Windows 64bit build of R

2012-08-06 Thread Jay Emerson
Alan, More RAM will definitely help. But if you have an object needing more than 2^31-1 ~ 2 billion elements, you'll hit a wall regardless. This could be particularly limiting for matrices. It is less limiting for data.frame objects (where each column could be 2 billion elements). But many R

[R] Memory limit for Windows 64bit build of R

2012-08-05 Thread Alan . X . Simpson
Dear all I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise machine, with 64bit R installed running on 2 x Quad-core Intel Xeon 5500 processor with 24GB DDR3 1066 Mhz RAM. I am seeking to analyse very large data sets (perhaps as much as 10GB), without the addtional coding overhead of a package such

Re: [R] Memory limit for Windows 64bit build of R

2012-08-05 Thread Jie
Hi, Before someone gives professional advice, you may do an experiment: Set the windows virtual memeory to be as large as ~128GB, (make sure the hard drive has enough space, restart might be required); increase the memroy limit in R; load a big dataset (or iteratively assign it to an object, and

Re: [R] Memory limit in Aggregate()

2011-08-03 Thread Guillaume
Hi Peter, Thanks for these information. I used a column concatenating the listBy data to do this aggregation : (I don't know if it's the best solution, but it seems to work). aggregateMultiBy - function(x, by, FUN){ tableBy = data.frame(by) tableBy$byKey = for(colBy in

[R] Memory limit in Aggregate()

2011-08-02 Thread Guillaume
Dear all, I am trying to aggregate a table (divided in two lists here), but get a memory error. Here is the code I'm running : sessionInfo() print(paste(memory.limit() , memory.limit())) print(paste(memory.size() , memory.size())) print(paste(memory.size(TRUE) ,

Re: [R] Memory limit in Aggregate()

2011-08-02 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:45 , Guillaume wrote: Dear all, I am trying to aggregate a table (divided in two lists here), but get a memory error. Here is the code I'm running : sessionInfo() print(paste(memory.limit() , memory.limit())) print(paste(memory.size() ,

Re: [R] Memory limit in Aggregate()

2011-08-02 Thread Guillaume
Hi Peter, Thanks for your answer. I made a mistake in the script I copied sorry ! The description of the object : listX has 3 column, listBy has 4 column, and they have 9000 rows : print(paste(ncol x , length((listX print(paste(ncol By , length((listBy print(paste(nrow ,

Re: [R] Memory limit in Aggregate()

2011-08-02 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 2, 2011, at 17:10 , Guillaume wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks for your answer. I made a mistake in the script I copied sorry ! The description of the object : listX has 3 column, listBy has 4 column, and So what is the contents of listBy? If they are all factors with 100 levels, then

Re: [R] Memory limit in Aggregate()

2011-08-02 Thread Guillaume
Hi Peter, Yes I have a large number of factors in the listBy table. Do you mean that aggregate() creates a complete cartesian product of the by columns ? (and creates combinations of values that do not exist in the orignial by table, before removing them when returning the aggregated table?)

Re: [R] Memory limit in Aggregate()

2011-08-02 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 2, 2011, at 19:09 , Guillaume wrote: Hi Peter, Yes I have a large number of factors in the listBy table. Do you mean that aggregate() creates a complete cartesian product of the by columns ? (and creates combinations of values that do not exist in the orignial by table, before

Re: [R] Memory limit problem

2010-10-12 Thread Rubén Roa
)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB /3GB /noexecute=optin /fastdetect -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org on behalf of Tim Clark Sent: Tue 10/12/2010 5:49 AM To: r help r-help Cc: Tim Clark Subject: [R] Memory limit problem Dear List, I am

[R] Memory limit problem

2010-10-11 Thread Tim Clark
Dear List, I am trying to plot bathymetry contours around the Hawaiian Islands using the package rgdal and PBSmapping.  I have run into a memory limit when trying to combine two fairly small objects using cbind().  I have increased the memory to 4GB, but am being told I can't allocate a vector

Re: [R] Memory limit problem

2010-10-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Tim Clark wrote: Dear List, I am trying to plot bathymetry contours around the Hawaiian Islands using the package rgdal and PBSmapping. I have run into a memory limit when trying to combine two fairly small objects using cbind(). I have increased the

Re: [R] Memory limit problem

2010-10-11 Thread Daniel Nordlund
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:07 PM To: Tim Clark Cc: r help r-help Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit problem On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Tim Clark wrote

Re: [R] Memory limit problem

2010-10-11 Thread Chris Howden
2010 3:00 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit problem -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:07 PM To: Tim Clark Cc: r help r-help Subject: Re: [R

[R] memory limit

2010-05-08 Thread Zoppoli, Gabriele (NIH/NCI) [G]
Hi, when I try to import a microarray CEL batch, I get this error message: myAB - ReadAffy () Error in .Call(read_abatch, filenames, rm.mask, rm.outliers, rm.extra, : cannot allocate vector of length 1287151200 which, assuming the value is in bites, is below my RAM values (3 Gb recognized

Re: [R] memory limit

2010-05-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 08.05.2010 18:52, Zoppoli, Gabriele (NIH/NCI) [G] wrote: Hi, when I try to import a microarray CEL batch, I get this error message: myAB- ReadAffy () This seems to be more related to the BioC mailing list. Error in .Call(read_abatch, filenames, rm.mask, rm.outliers, rm.extra, :

Re: [R] memory limit

2010-05-08 Thread Martin Morgan
On 05/08/2010 10:00 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 08.05.2010 18:52, Zoppoli, Gabriele (NIH/NCI) [G] wrote: Hi, when I try to import a microarray CEL batch, I get this error message: myAB- ReadAffy () This seems to be more related to the BioC mailing list. yes

[R] memory limit problem

2009-09-10 Thread oleg portnoy
Hi, I have Win XP 32, 4 gig DDR2 and R 2.9.2. I have memory limit problems. memory.limit(4090) [1] 4090 memory.limit() [1] 4090 a-trans.matrix.f(7) # made big matrix of integer 16384*16384 Error: cannot allocate vector of size 512.0 Mb I not have other objects in R memory. what I do?

Re: [R] memory limit problem

2009-09-10 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:24 PM, oleg portnoyoleg.portno...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have Win XP 32, 4 gig DDR2 and R 2.9.2. I have memory limit problems. memory.limit(4090) [1] 4090 memory.limit() [1] 4090 a-trans.matrix.f(7) # made big matrix of integer 16384*16384 Error: cannot

[R] memory limit in R

2009-08-18 Thread Hongwei Dong
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

Re: [R] memory limit in R

2009-08-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hongwei Dong 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

Re: [R] memory limit in R

2009-08-18 Thread Hongwei Dong
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

Re: [R] memory limit in R

2009-08-18 Thread Jim Holtman
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

Re: [R] memory limit

2008-11-26 Thread seanpor
Good afternoon, The short answer is yes, the long answer is it depends. It all depends on what you want to do with the data, I'm working with dataframes of a couple of million lines, on this plain desktop machine and for my purposes it works fine. I read in text files, manipulate them, convert

[R] memory limit

2008-11-26 Thread iwalters
I'm currently working with very large datasets that consist out of 1,000,000 + rows. Is it at all possible to use R for datasets this size or should I rather consider C++/Java. -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] memory limit

2008-11-26 Thread Stavros Macrakis
I routinely compute with a 2,500,000-row dataset with 16 columns, which takes 410MB of storage; my Windows box has 4GB, which avoids thrashing. As long as I'm careful not to compute and save multiple copies of the entire data frame (because 32-bit Windows R is limited to about 1.5GB address space

Re: [R] memory limit

2008-11-26 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Stavros Macrakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I routinely compute with a 2,500,000-row dataset with 16 columns, which takes 410MB of storage; my Windows box has 4GB, which avoids thrashing. As long as I'm careful not to compute and save multiple copies of the