R devel - Feb 2006 - Word boundaries and gregexpr in R 2.2.1 (PR#8547)

Full_Name: Stefan Th. Gries
Version: 2.2.1
OS: Windows XP (Home and Professional)
Submission from: (NULL) (68.6.34.104)


The problem is this: I have a vector of two character strings.
> text<-c("This is a first example sentence.", "And this is
a second example
 sentence.")

If I now look for word boundaries with regexpr, this is what I
get:
> regexpr("\\b", text, perl=TRUE)
[1] 1 1
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 0 0

So far, so good. But with gregexpr I get:
> gregexpr("\\b", text, perl=TRUE)
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 524288 Kb
In addition: Warning messages:
1: Reached total allocation of 1015Mb: see help(memory.size)
2: Reached total allocation of 1015Mb: see help(memory.size)

Why don't I get the locations and extensions of all word boundaries?

I am using R 2.2.1 on a machine running Windows XP:
> R.version
        _
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386
os       mingw32
system   i386, mingw32
status
major    2
minor    2.1
year     2005
month    12
day      20
svn rev  36812
language R

Should be patched in R-devel, will be available shortly

stgries at linguistics.ucsb.edu wrote:
> Full_Name: Stefan Th. Gries
> Version: 2.2.1
> OS: Windows XP (Home and Professional)
> Submission from: (NULL) (68.6.34.104)
> 
> 
> The problem is this: I have a vector of two character strings.
> 
> 
>>text<-c("This is a first example sentence.", "And this
is a second example
> 
>  sentence.")
> 
> If I now look for word boundaries with regexpr, this is what I get:
> 
>>regexpr("\\b", text, perl=TRUE)
> 
> [1] 1 1
> attr(,"match.length")
> [1] 0 0
> 
> So far, so good. But with gregexpr I get:
> 
> 
>>gregexpr("\\b", text, perl=TRUE)
> 
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 524288 Kb
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: Reached total allocation of 1015Mb: see help(memory.size)
> 2: Reached total allocation of 1015Mb: see help(memory.size)
> 
> Why don't I get the locations and extensions of all word boundaries?
> 
> I am using R 2.2.1 on a machine running Windows XP:
> 
>>R.version
> 
>         _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    2
> minor    2.1
> year     2005
> month    12
> day      20
> svn rev  36812
> language R
> 
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