I am having an unusual difficulty with R 1.8.0 on Mandrake 9.1 running a
problem that takes a large amount of memory. With R 1.7.1 this ran on
the machine I am using (barely), but now takes more memory than is
available. The first two times I tried with R 1.8.0, R exited after the
program had run for some time, and gave no indication of anything, just
returned to the shell command prompt. I ran under gdb to see if I could
get a bettter indication of the problem, and this crashed Linux
completely, or at least X, but I couldn't get another console either. (I
haven't had anything crash Linux in a long time.) To confirm this I ran
R under gdb again, and ran top to verify I was hitting memory
constraints (which I was), but this time R did give a message "Error:
cannot allocate a vector of size ..."
I'm not worried about running the problem, but I would like a more
graceful exit. Might this be related to the change in error handling?
Paul Gilbert
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