On May 3, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Marius Hofert <marius.hof...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Dear expeRts, > > The following code leads to R being killed (under Mac OS X 10.11.4; R > installed from source; also happened under a previous unstable > version): > > m <- matrix(0, 100000, 100000) > > I expected an error that a vector of this size could not be allocated. > > Besides the above (a bug?), how can I find out beforehand whether or > not a square matrix can be allocated? > Can you elaborate on "leads to R being killed"? You should tell to the killer not to do it again :). Cheers, Simon > Cheers, > Marius > > > PS: Here is the sessionInfo() output: > > R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03) > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.4.0 (64-bit) > Running under: OS X 10.11.4 (El Capitan) > > locale: > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel