Jean-Pierre Dube wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I seem to be encountering RAM problems using R. I am currently running R
> 2.2.0 in Windows XP version 2002. My computer has 4 GB of RAM. The
> problem I am encountering is that R does not seem to allow me to obtain
> more than 1.5GB of RAM as I construct various matrices.
>
> I have already pre-allocated 3.5 GB of RAM as in the command line I entered
> under "Target": "C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.2.0\bin\Rgui.exe"
> --max-mem-size=3500Mb.
>
> However, R still seems to be blocked at 1.5GB. Once I have more than about
> 1.5 GB of RAM allocated to the various objects in memory, I get an error
> that R cannot allocate the matrix.
>
> Is there an internal RAM limit for R? Are there any work-arounds?
There is a theoretical limit is 2Gb - and this is an operating system
issue. Anyway, ?"Memory-limits" describes how to get more.
Uwe Ligges
> Thank you very much,
>
> JP
>
>
>
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