On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:45:16 +0200, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All, at the moment I am using R for calculations of large > databases. Unfortunately, R only manages to complete certain > operations at some times, and not at others. I usually get the error > message "cannot allocate vector of size XX" > I am using the 64-bit version with Windows 7. While my computer has 8 > RAM, I do have a feeling that R cannot use all of it. > Searching online, I found that you can increase the memory with the > options --max-mem-size/ --max-ppsize or change the environment > variable R_MAX_MEM_SIZE to "allow deep recursion or large and > complicated calculations to be done" > Unfortunately, I am not very knowledgable yet on how to use R and I > did not quite manage to use the commands successfully. Could you > please tell me whether these do make sense for my case and if so how > (and at what stage of the process) I can use them? Are you sure you're using the 64 bit R executable which comes with the R installation? -- Seb ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
