What do you think is `slightly inconsistent behavior' here? (You seem to
be quite consistent in not telling us such relevant facts, including your
OS and version of R!)
If you think that the memory usage of R should be monotone in the size of
the problem, your expectations are unfounded.
dear R experts:
This is just a minor, minor nuisance, but I thought I would point it out:
dataset - read.table(file=pipe(cmdline), header =T,
+ na.strings=c(NaN, C,I,M, E), sep=,,
as.is=T, nrows=);
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 781249 Kb
If I extend nrows by a