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3 messages · Achaz von Hardenberg, Jason Turner, Uwe Ligges

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To: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:41:03 -0500

hello everybody!

I am trying to increase the memory size in R (windows version), but have
truble in understanding how to do it. The help file tells me to use the
--max-mem-size command line flag but it's still not clear to me how I shoud
do this...what's the difference between a "command line flag" and a command?
Thank you for your help to a r-beginner!

Achaz von Hardenberg
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Département de Biologie
Université de Sherbrooke
J1K 2R1 Sherbrooke
Canada
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Tel. ++1 (819) 821 8000 ext. 2059
e-mail: achaz at hermes.usherb.ca

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Easiest fix is to use version 1.2 or higher (latest is 1.2.2).  Then
this becomes irrelevant to the user.

Cheers

Jason Turner
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Starting R from the command line ("DOS window") using the mentioned
command line flag means for example:

c:\> c:\program files\rw1022\bin\rgui.exe --max-mem-size=256M

You might want to create a shortcut, so you don't have to type it in
every time.
Please read the rw-FAQs.

Uwe Ligges


BTW: If you don't have installed more than 256M of RAM, it makes not
much sense to increase the max-mem-size, because your machine will begin
swapping ...
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