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Please, I have a 2GB computer and a huge time-series to embedd, and i tried increasing memory.limit() and memory.size(max=TRUE), but nothing. Just before the command: > memory.size(max=TRUE) [1] 13.4375 > memory.limit() [1] 1535.875 > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 209552 5.6 407500 10.9 350000 9.4 Vcells 125966 1.0 786432 6.0 496686 3.8

I am getting "Error: cannot allocate vector of size 197 MB". I know that similar problems were discussed a lot already, but I didn't find any satisfactory answers so far! Details: *** I have XP (32bit) with 4GB ram. At the time when the problem appeared I had 1.5GB of available physical memory. *** I increased R memory limit to 3GB via memory.limit(3000) *** I did gs() and got

Hi developers, After some investigation I have found there can be large discrepancies in the same object being saved as an external "xx.RData" file. The immediate repercussion of this is the possible increased size of your .RData workspace for no apparent reason. The function and its three scenarios below highlight these discrepancies. Note that the object being returned is exactly

How do people deal with R and memory issues? I have tried using gc() to see how much memory is used at each step. Scanned Crawley R-Book and all other R books I have available and the FAQ on-line but no help really found. Running WinXP Pro (32 bit) with 4 GB RAM. One SATA drive pair is in RAID 0 configuration with 10000 MB allocated as virtual memory. I do have another machine

dear R experts: I am of course no R experts, but use it regularly. I thought I would share some experimentation with memory use. I run a linux machine with about 4GB of memory, and R 2.5.0. upon startup, gc() reports used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 268755 14.4 407500 21.8 350000 18.7 Vcells 139137 1.1 786432 6.0 444750 3.4 This is my baseline. linux

I have been trying out R-1.6.0 tarballs (2002-9-10 and 2002-9-17) on: arch sparc os solaris2.8 system sparc, solaris2.8 status beta major 1 minor 6.0 year 2002 month 09 day 17 language R As you see form above, R-1.6.0 compiles fine and works. However, when I "make fullcheck" I get the following error: running code in 'tools-Ex.R' ... OK

This is something that I have not seen in earlier beta versions of 1.6.0: . . . ts.plot text html latex example ts.union text html latex example tsSmooth text html latex tsdiag text html latex example R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL ERROR: no packages

Is it expected behavior for gc() to return shrinking values as it gets called multiple times? Here's what I've got: > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) Ncells 221754 6.0 467875 12.5 Vcells 3760209 28.7 14880310 113.6 > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) Ncells 221760 6.0 467875 12.5 Vcells 3016206 23.1 11904247 90.9 > gc() used (Mb) gc

Dear all, I am working on a 64 bits Linux system. I issue the following R commands: > rm(list=ls()) # To remove all objects in the workspace. > gc() # To free memory. used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 124250 6.7 350000 18.7 350000 18.7 Vcells 124547 1.0 786432 6.0 476934 3.7 > gc() # I had to do it again, don't know why! used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells

Hi, I've been having similar experiences and haven't been able to substantially improve the efficiency using the guidance in the I/O Manual. Could anyone advise on how to improve the following scan()? It is not based on my real file, please assume that I do need to read in characters, and can't do any pre-processing of the file, etc. ## Create Sample File

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Full_Name: Don Maszle Version: 2.3.0 OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Submission from: (NULL) (206.86.87.3) # On our new 32 GB x86_64 machine R : Copyright 2006, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24) ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or

I have a question concerning memory. I understood that R takes a fixed amount of memory at startup (which I can influence with --vsize --nsize) and that gc() shows the memory still free of the total memory reserved for R. However, if I create a long vector of character data, gc() only seem to reflect the space needed for a vector of pointers to char, the space used for the character data itself

>>>>> Gergely Dar?czi <daroczig at rapporter.net> >>>>> on Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:48:12 +0100 writes: > Dear All, > I'm developing an R application running inside of a Java daemon on > multiple threads, and interacting with the parent daemon via stdin and > stdout. > Everything works perfectly fine except for having some

Hi, I'm just starting out with R and came across R_inferno.pdf by Patrick Burns just yesterday - I recommend it! His description of how 'growing' objects (e.g. obj <- c(obj, additionalValue) eats up memory prompted me to rewrite a function (which made such calls ~210 times) so that it used indexing into a dimensioned object instead (i.e. obj[i, ] <- additionalValue). This

As others already mentioned, in your example you are first creating an integer matrix and the coercing it to a double matrix by assigning (double) 1 to element [1,1]. However, even when correcting for this mistake, there is an extra copy created when using matrix(). Try this in a fresh vanilla R session: > print(gc()) used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 136684 3.7

Hello everyone - I have a couple of questions about memory management of large objects. Thanks in advance for your response. I'm running R version 1.9.1 on solaris 8, compiled as a 32 bit app. My system has 12.0 GB of memory, with usually ~ 11GB free. I checked system limits using ulimit, and there is nothing set that would limit the maximum amount of memory for a process (with the

Hi, I am trying to minimize a rather complex function of 5 parameters with gafit and nlm. Besides some problems with both optimization algorithms (with respect to consistantly generating similar results), I tried to run this optimization about a hundred times for yet two other parameters. Unfortunately, as the log below shows, during that batch process R starts to eat up all my RAM,

Have searched through the archives but have been unable to find any related issues - hopefully I'm not bringing up an old topic. Am using RW1041 on a Windows NT on a machine with 1Gb of memory. Have a function doit() that reads in a chunk of data using readBin, performs a regression, saves out coeffs and then returns. When using Rgui with the default memory limit of 256Mb I'm able to

Hi there, I seek your expert opinion on the following memory related questions. The output below was gotten from R-2.6.2, compiled with --enable-memory-profiling on Ubuntu Linux. ======================================================================= >>> Code and output 1: > gc( ) used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 131180 7.1 350000 18.7 350000 18.7