Dear all, I tried to read in a 3.8Gb RDS file on a computer with 16Gb available memory. To my astonishment, the memory footprint of R rises quickly to over 13Gb and the attempt ends with an error that says "cannot allocate vector of size 5.8Gb".
I would expect that 3 times the memory would be enough to read in that file, but apparently I was wrong. I checked the memory.limit() and that one gave me a value of more than 13Gb. So I wondered if this was to be expected, or if there could be an underlying reason why this file doesn't want to open. Thank you in advance Joris -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling Ghent University Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
