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Hi, Is the following command used to increase the memory or any other command when a background R job is run? R --min-vsize=vl --max-vsize=vu --min-nsize=nl --max-nsize=nu --max-ppsize=N source: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/base/html/Memory.html Thx Carol [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

My group is working with datasets between 100 Mb and 1 GB in size, using multiple log ins. From the documentation, it appears that vsize is limited to 2^30-1, which tends to prove too restrictive for our use. When we drop that restriction (set vsize = NA) we end up hanging the server, which requires a restart. Is there any way to increase the memory limits on R while keeping our jobs from

Hi there, I'm brand new to R, so let me know if this question is not appropriate for this list. I've been reading through the documentation and have tried a number of things, but am pretty much stuck so far. Here's the session info: > sessionInfo() R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 locale: C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices

Dear list, I have been trying to run the function "qvalue" under the package qvalue on a vector with about 20 million values. > asso_p.qvalue<-qvalue(asso_p.vector) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 156513 Kb > sessionInfo() Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) i686-pc-linux-gnu attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics"

Dear all, I don't get it: First of all, the help doesn't say what are the memory limits of R. Say, what's the max heap size for instance ???? Secondly, I invoke R with the following commands each time: rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 1000K rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 2000K rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 3000K rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 4000K I try to open a matrix 8000x8000 by issuing

Hi, I have a few questions about how to handle large data sets in R. What is the size of the largest matrix that R can comfortably deal with? Is this size limit imposed by R's software, or is it a question of the machine that one runs on? How does one go about choosing reasonable values of vsize and nsize? I have a data set with about 1,000,000 rows, and 30

Hi everyone, I have a problem that some people may have already encountered but i did not find the solution yet. As I use R to simulate several arrays of data, my workspace is now 35Mb big and I cannot launch R with it. An "xdr real data read error occured" and R tells me to delete .RData or increase memory. I WON'T delete this file and changing the max-nsize to 40600k did not

Let me begin stating that I read all help files and faq's on the subject matter (there aren't more than about a dozen) but either did not find solutions or found them not to work. Here is the issue. I am trying to run a spatial regression on a medium-sized dataset. Part of the functions in the spdep package I use require me to allocate a vector of 1.1 Gb (mine is not a spatial SIG

Dear R-users, I am trying to run some simulations in batch mode. In an older version of the program, I used rterm --vsize=100M --nsize=5000K --restore --save <input file> output file, however, in the new version R 2.2.0 , the parameters vsize and nsize are ignored. I can use the command memory.limit to increase memory, but I am not sure if this corresponds to vsize and nsize.

Dear R-ers, somehow it is not possible to increase nsize to more than 20000k. When I specify e.g. > R --vsize=10M --nsize=21000K the result is: free total (Mb) Ncells 99658 350000 6.7 Vcells 1219173 1310720 10.0 Maybe I have overlooked s.th.... Marcus -- +------------------------------------------------------- | Marcus Eger | E-Mail: eger.m at gmx.de (NEW) |

I am running R version ??? under Redhat 5.2. It seems as though the --nsize object has no effct on the size of the allocated Ncells as determined using gc(). Yes, I have that much data.... That is if I envoke R with R --vsize 100 --nsize 5000000 then type gc() I get free total Ncells 92202 200000 Vcells 12928414 13107200 Thanks Tony Long Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Steinhaus

Dear Group I'm still trying to bring many data into R (see older postings). After solving some troubles with the database I do most of the work in MySQL. But still I could be nice to work on some data using R. Therefore I can use a dedicated Server with Gentoo Linux as OS hosting only R. This Server is a nice machine with two CPU and 4GB RAM which should do the job: Dual Intel XEON 3.06 GHz

I am trying to upload into R 143 Affymetrix chips onto using R on the NIH Nimbus server. I can load 10 chips without a problem, however, when I try to load 143 I receive a error message: cannot create a vector of 523263 KB. I have expanded the memory of R as follows: R --min-vsize=10M --max-vsize=2500M --min-nsize=10M -max-nsize=50M (as specified in help in R). After running this command the

Hello R-community, It's been a week now that I am struggling with the implementation of a cox model in R. I have 80 cancer patients, so 80 time measurements and 80 relapse or no measurements (respective to censor, 1 if relapsed over the examined period, 0 if not). My microarray data contain around 18000 genes. So I have the expressions of 18000 genes in each of the 80 tumors (matrix

Dear R-helpers, I am running R version 2.9.1 on a Mac Quad with 32Gb of RAM running Mac OS X version 10.5.6. With over 20Gb of RAM "free" (according to the Activity Monitor) the following happens. > x <- matrix(rep(0, 6600^2), ncol = 6600) # So far so good. But I need 3 matrices of this size. > y <- matrix(rep(0, 6600^2), ncol = 6600) R(3219) malloc: ***

Hi, I am not on this mailing list, but here is a terrible bug that has stopped me in my tracks. I am unable to remove observations from a data matrix. temp is the original matrix. Notice that there are 288 entries with a 104 in the first column. I attempt to remove these entries, but R does not do it. brad ACTUAL COMMANDS: > dim(temp) [1] 30528 11 > table(temp[,1]) 1 3 4

Dear R community, I have a question on how R manages memory allocation in .Fortran() calls under Windows. In brief, apparently, it is not possible to allocate large matrices inside a Fortran subroutine unless you pass them as arguments. If you do not act in this way RGUI crashes with a stack overflow error and acting on memory through vsize nsize ppsize and memory.limit does not help at all.

I am trying to translate code from S-PLUS to R and R really struggles! After starting R with the foll. R --vsize 50M --nsize 6M --no-restore on a 400 MHz Pentium with 192 MB of memory running Linux (RH 6.2), I run a function that essentially picks up an external dataset with 2121 rows and 30 columns and builds a lm() object and also runs step() ... the step() takes forever to run...(takes very

G'day R friends, I didn't get any replies on the main list so I thought I'd try with the experts. I was wondering if anyone's ported R to os390. If so, are the vsize and nsize limits the same as other platforms? I could really annoy those SAS guys then. thanks, John Strumila john.strumila@team.telstra.com

For anybody who uses ESS with R, how do you invoke the vsize and nsize options when you call R. I can't find any appropriate variables from an apropos. Thanks, Jord -- Jordan Howarth CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences mailto:jordan.howarth at cmis.csiro.au -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read