Hi, On my system, I get the following error message:
> big <- 2:(2**30) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 0 Kb Note the wrong "size 0 Kb" in the message! Cheers, H. > sessionInfo() R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-05 r40386) i686-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" [7] "base" ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel