I realize that I gave too little information about the OS etc in my last e-mai. The "version"-command in R gave this result: platform hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 arch hppa2.0w os hpux11.11 system hppa2.0w, hpux11.11 status major 1 minor 7.0 year 2003 month 04 day 16 language R Ida -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Allocation problem Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:31:01 +0200 From: Ida Scheel <ida.scheel@nr.no> To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Hi, I have a problem when using R1.7.0. I have a very large dataset, but I also have access to 24GB RAM on a super-computer. Nevertheless, when using the "lme"-function I get the error message Error: cannot allocate vector of size 224295 Kb As I understand it, the default is that there is no memory-limit in R other than machine resources, but somehow R does not get acces to the 24GB of RAM I have available. Does anyone have a tip? I have tried Ida [[alternate HTML version deleted]]