I have read the manual, but am unsure how to interpret the following one-line error message: Error: cannot allocate vector of size 38912 Kb I monitor the process with "top" and the machine has plenty of memory available when this message is generated. I understand the unix variant of R has some command-line options for memory: --min-vsize=N Set vector heap min to N bytes; `4M' = 4 MegaB --max-vsize=N Set vector heap max to N bytes; --min-nsize=N Set min number of cons cells to N --max-nsize=N Set max number of cons cells to N Invoked with no command-line options under Solaris 2.6, R (Version 1.2.3 (2001-04-26)) reports
mem.limits()
nsize vsize NA NA I understand this to mean I am able to utilize all the memory on the machine. The painful part of this is that I used to be able to do this same sized problem in S-PLUS (slowly, mind you). The error message is generated as the job exits a loop. Any hints? Thanks. ## Tim Hoar, Associate Scientist email: thoar at ucar.edu ## ## Geophysical Statistics Project phone: 303-497-1708 ## ## National Center for Atmospheric Research FAX : 303-497-1333 ## ## Boulder, CO 80307 http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/~thoar ## -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._