[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am an R user trying to get around the 2Gig memory limit in Windows, so > here I am days later with a working Ubuntu, and R under Ubuntu. But - the > memory problems seem worse than ever. R code that worked under > windows fails, unable to allocate memory. > > Searching around the web, it appears that the problem may be the ability to > find contguous memory for my big vectors, but a fresh boot of Ubuntu does > not help either. > > Which way to go? > > 1) Try to install 64-bit version for bigger address space. Would this help? > Is > this workable for my Athlon 64 Dual-core? (the live cd seems to work but I > never got it to boot after a disk install, but then the 386 version was no > better > until I learned more about Grub...I could try again if this might solve the > problem)
If you really have got such amounts of RAM in that machine, it should be worth trying. Uwe Ligges > 2) Recompile R to get bigger memory capability? (I'll have to cross-post to > some R forums too) > This will be a challenge for a Linux newbie...like me. > > 3) Any other suggestions? My goal is to create a bigger neural network than > fits in my Windows R version. ______________________________________________ [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.
