On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Liaw, Andy wrote: > > From: Gamal Abdel-Azim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > While trying to expand the memory/object size in R, I noticed > > that R might be using > > only heap memory. Is this true? Are all objects in R created > > in the heap not > > allocated?
To the extent that this means anything it is true. All R objects are stored in memory controlled by the R process, in two heaps. The "g.data" package allows objects to be stored on disk and only loaded as necessary. >> It's not logical that this is the case!! Otherwise > > the whole R project would > > be a total waste of time and resources. There appear to be some missing steps in this reasoning. > > If I am wrong please inform me. How to increase memory.size > > in R? Is there a way > > similar to options(object.size=size) in S-Plus. Notice that > > the command R --max- vsize=N targets the heap memory! The --max-vsize option exists to *reduce* the maximum memory use, not to increase it (at least under Unix). You have access to all the memory your operating system will give you. > > > > I have recently installed R on a Linux machine (3GB RAM and > > sufficiently large HD). Then you should be able to access nearly 4Gb in R, which is enough for quite a lot of purposes. > > Sorry for posting to Splus not R. But if R works only in the > > heap, I may not need to > > subscribe to R-news at all. ! -thomas ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help