Re: [R] slightly inconsistent behavior

2006-12-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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.

[R] slightly inconsistent behavior

2006-12-26 Thread ivo welch
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