On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Maura E Monville wrote: > I have a loop that processes all the raw data files in agiven directory. > It should allocate only the memory to accomodate the filenames list.
Without seeeing the script (see the footer of this and every R-help message, including the second copy you sent), all we can say is that was not what your script does. But that did seem implausible, as R needs memory to 'process' each file. > Each file is loaded into RAM one at a time and saved to another > directory after processing. The R script runs fine but it had some > memory problems so it was terminated before getting to the end of the > list. > This is a Windows XP desktop with ~ 1GB RAM > In the following I am pasting R messages. I would appreciate some > suggestion about memory handling: > > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 32.0 Mb > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: Reached total allocation of 958Mb: see help(memory.size) in: x[[i]] <- y > 2: Reached total allocation of 958Mb: see help(memory.size) in: x[[i]] <- y > 3: Reached total allocation of 958Mb: see help(memory.size) in: x[[i]] <- y > 4: Reached total allocation of 958Mb: see help(memory.size) in: x[[i]] <- y > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
