Hello,
I am wondering if I am misinterpreting something from R/3.0.0 NEWS
LONG VECTORS:
This section applies only to 64-bit platforms.
...
o serialize() to a raw vector is unlimited in size (except by
resources).
However when I try the following it fails:
> foo <- raw(2500000000)
> print(object.size(foo),units="auto")
2.3 Gb> bar <- serialize(foo, NULL)
Error: serialization is too large to store in a raw vector
However this works:
> foo <- raw(2000000000)
> print(object.size(foo),units="auto")
1.9 Gb> bar <- serialize(foo, NULL)
So it appears there may be a 2GB limit, which I've read should only be the
case for 32-bit or pre-R/3.0.0 installations.
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
I've tested this on a few different hosts with no success - Ubuntu Raring
Ringtail (apt-get), SLES 11.2 (building R from source), and Windows binaries
Regards,
Sam
