I have read the manual, but am unsure how to interpret the following
one-line error message:
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 38912 Kb
I monitor the process with "top" and the machine has plenty of
memory available when this message is generated.
I understand the unix variant of R has some command-line options for memory:
--min-vsize=N Set vector heap min to N bytes; `4M'' = 4 MegaB
--max-vsize=N Set vector heap max to N bytes;
--min-nsize=N Set min number of cons cells to N
--max-nsize=N Set max number of cons cells to N
Invoked with no command-line options under Solaris 2.6,
R (Version 1.2.3 (2001-04-26)) reports
> mem.limits()
nsize vsize
NA NA
I understand this to mean I am able to utilize all the memory on the machine.
The painful part of this is that I used to be able to do this same sized
problem in S-PLUS (slowly, mind you). The error message is generated as the
job exits a loop.
Any hints?
Thanks.
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