Hi Simon, ... all interesting (but quite a bit above my head). I only read 'Linux' and want to throw in that this problem does not appear on Linux (it seems). I talked about this with Martin Maechler and he reported that the same example (on one of his machines; with NA_real_ instead of '0's in the matrix) gave:
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 70.8 Gb Timing stopped at: 144.79 41.619 202.019 ... but no killer around... Cheers, Marius ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel