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Increase heap space of openNLP

5 messages · Simon Urbanek, Richard R. Liu

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I'm not sure whether this question belongs in this SIG or in the R-help mail list.

I'm running R 2.9.2 "Leopard" version on a MacBook Pro 17" early 2009 laptop
with OS X 10.5.8.  Due to memory problems I am running the 64-bit version of
R.app, R64.  When I sentDetect I get a an out-of-memory Java heap space
exception.  How can increase the heap space to avoid this error?

Thanks,
Richard
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Richard R. Liu wrote:

            
set -Xmx Java parameter (see java -X)

Cheers,
Simon
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Many thanks for your reply.  I'm afraid I'm very new at all this.  I really
don't know where to set the Java parameter -Xmx.  In most applications that
are written in Java for the Mac, there is usually some way to set those
parameters in the .plist of the app.  I don't find any such section for R.app
or R64.app.  I have located the openNLP package in ~/Libraries/R/Library/2.9,
but I don't see anything there.  I obviously looked in R-help for "increase
heap space", etc., before posing the question.

Could you be a bit more specific about where to set this parameter? 
Everything I do in R I do through the R GUI.

Thanks,
Richard

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:41:51 -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote
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Richard R. Liu
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CH-4053 Basel
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Tel.:  +41 61 331 10 47
Email:  richard.liu at pueo-owl.ch
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Excellent!  Thank-you.

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:04:49 -0400, Simon Urbanek wrote
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Richard R. Liu
Dittingerstr. 33
CH-4053 Basel
Switzerland

Tel.:  +41 61 331 10 47
Email:  richard.liu at pueo-owl.ch
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:44 , Richard R. Liu wrote:

            
If the packages you use don't override default settings you can simply  
set (example for 2GB):

options(java.parameters="-Xmx2g")

If they do, you can make 100% sure that they won't be able to by  
running the following before loading any packages:

library(rJava)
.jinit(parameters="-Xmx2g")

The above examples sets the heap to 2GB of memory -- but make sure you  
have that much memory otherwise Java won't accept it.

On the command line (Terminal) type "java -X" to see the Java  
parameters you can set.

Cheers,
Simon