I got the same message under NT.
If you use the binary compiled by Guido Masarotto,  rw0624b.zip
http://www.stat.unipg.it/pub/stat/statlib/R/CRAN/bin/ms-windows/win-32-devel
/
http://fangorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/bin/ms-windows/
ftp://ftp.stat.unipd.it/users/guido/R.
you should not have troubles.
By the way, Thanks a lot Guido !
F.M.S.
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    Federico M. STEFANINI
    Department of Statistics "G. Parenti"	
    University of Florence - Italy
    Viale Morgagni, 59
    I  50134 Firenze, Italia
    Phone:   +39 055 4237 461
    Fax:     +39 055 4223 560
    email:   stefanin at stat.ds.unifi.it
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----------> Da: Christoph.Kalinowski at ku-eichstaett.de
> A: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Cc: christoph.kalinowski at ku-eichstaett.de
> Oggetto: [R] WIN-NT
> Data: venerd? 13 novembre 1998 15.08
> 
> Hi,
> I try to use R for a beginners course in statistics. We use windows 
> NT version 4. When I try to start R the message window "R Memory"
> with the message "memory problem" appears and R quits. This
doesnT
> happen if you are logged in as administratot. Does annyone knows why 
> and what I can do?
> 
> Christoph
> 
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