my R-SVN revision is 40458 compared to 40386 yours, could it be corrected already?
* ~: R > 2**30 [1] 1073741824 > a<-2:1073741824 Error: cannot allocate vector of size 4194304 Kb > sessionInfo() R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-22 r40548) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" [7] "base" > -- Dr Oleg Sklyar | EBI-EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK | +44-1223-494466 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel