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Hi, I have quite some trouble with the package methods. "Environments" in R are a convenient way to emulate pointers (and avoid copies of large objects, or of large collections of objects). So far, so good, but the package methods is becoming more (and more) problematic to work with. Up to version R-1.7.0, slots that were environments were still references to an environment, but I

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

Hi all, I am currently building an application based on R 1.7.1 (+ compiled C/C++ code + MySql + VB). I am building this application to work on 2 different platforms (Windows XP Professional (500mb memory) and Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 6 (1gb memory)). This is a very memory intensive application performing sophisticated operations on "large" matrices (typically 5000x1500

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

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 Folks, The inspiration for this query is described below, but it prompts a general question: If one wants to use only one or a few functions from a library, is there a way to load only these, without loading the library, short of going into the package source and extracting what is needed (including of course any auxiliary functions and compiled code they may depend on)? What prompted this

Dear list, In using the scatter.smooth() function (modreg) on a small data set (100 obs) the following error was produced: > scatter.smooth(Na, S) Warning message: k-d tree limited by memory. ncmax= 200 I haven't used scatter.smooth much but when I have, I haven't seen this message before. gc() returns > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) Ncells 417693 11.2 667722

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

Hi, when doing as.double() on an object that is already a double, the object seems to be copied internally, doubling the memory requirement. See example below. Same for as.character() etc. Is this intended? Example: % R --vanilla > x <- double(1e7) > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 234019 6.3 467875 12.5 350000 9.4 Vcells 10103774 77.1

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 memory leaks somewhere. Simplified version of the R app: while (TRUE) { con <- file('stdin', open = 'r', blocking = TRUE) line <- scan(con,

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

hello, the question concerning to the memory used and g.c. after having removed objects. What is wrong? bevor ------- > gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 313142 8.4 1801024 48.1 1835812 49.1 Vcells 809238 6.2 142909728 1090.4 178426948 1361.3 hier all attached objects

I must be reading the help file for gc() wrong. I thought it said that gc(verbose=FALSE) will run the garbage collection without printing the Ncells/Vcells summary. However, this is what I get: gc(verbose = FALSE) used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 267097 14.3 531268 28.4 531268 28.4 Vcells 429302 3.3 20829406 159.0 55923977 426.7 I'm embedding this in an

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

I came across this in a simulation I ran under 1.6.0: If I do something like R> x <- rnorm(10) R> rval <- NULL R> for(i in 1:100000) rval <- t.test(x)$p.value then the process size remains at about 14M under 1.5.1, but it seems to be almost linearly growing up to more than 100M under 1.6.0. I know that the above simulation is nonsense, but it was the simplest I could come up

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,

I was surprised to observe the following difference between 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 after a long overdue upgrade a few months ago of our departmental server. It wasn't a bug fix, but a subtle improvement. Here's the simplest example I could create. The size is excessive, on the order of the Netflix Competition data. The integer matrix is about 1.12 GB, and if coerced to numeric it is 2.24 GB.

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

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

Dear All, I would like some advice on creating R packages, passing by reference and oo R. I have created a package that is neither elegant nor extensible and rather cumbersome (it works). I would like to re write the code to make the package distributable (should it be of interest) and easy to maintain. The package is for Bayesian model determination via a reversible jump algorithm and has