working with large ascii files in R
On 07/18/2013 09:26 AM, Roman Lu?trik wrote:
Have you considered updating your R and associated packages?
As Roman mentioned, I also suggest you, as first step, to update R (and
all the packages) up to version 3 or higher, because one of the
significant user changes introduced in R 3.0.0 was related to memory
(from the NEWS file):
"It is now possible for 64-bit builds to allocate amounts of
memory limited only by the OS. It may be wise to use OS
facilities (e.g. ulimit in a bash shell, limit in csh), to set
limits on overall memory consumption of an R process,
particularly in a multi-user environment. A number of packages
need a limit of at least 4GB of virtual memory to load.
64-bit Windows builds of R are by default limited in memory usage
to the amount of RAM installed: this limit can be changed by
command-line option --max-mem-size or setting environment
variable R_MAX_MEM_SIZE."
Kind regards,
Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, Ph.D
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