Hi Jim, yes - it definitely is 64 bit. I call it with r64 and
.Platform$r_arch [1] "x86_64" It is on a apple snow leopard (10.6.8) with 16 GB of Ram - not windows Florian On 1 Sep 2011, at 16:22, jim holtman wrote: > Are you running a 64-bit version of R? It sounds like your operating > system is not giving you enough memory. It looks like this is not > under Windows in a native mode. > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Benton, Paul > <hpaul.bento...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: >> Posting for a friend >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: "Geier, Florian" >> <florian.geie...@imperial.ac.uk<mailto:florian.geie...@imperial.ac.uk>> >> Subject: Fwd: readBin fails to read large files >> Date: September 1, 2011 4:10:53 PM GMT+01:00 >> To: >> >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> Date: 1 September 2011 16:01:45 GMT+01:00 >> Subject: readBin fails to read large files >> >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to read a large file (~2GB) of unsigned ints into R. Using the >> command: >> >> raw<-readBin("file",n=10^8, integer(),endian="little",signed=FALSE) >> >> It works fine for n=10^8, but fails for n=10^9 (or even at n=6*10^8). My >> machine$sizeof.long is 8 bit. >> I am running R 2.13.1 on a x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) >> architecture. >> >> Thanks for your help >> >> Florian >> >> -- >> AXA doctoral fellow >> Bundy lab - Biomolecular Medicine >> Imperial College London >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> AXA doctoral fellow >> Bundy lab - Biomolecular Medicine >> Imperial College London >> >> >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- AXA doctoral fellow Bundy lab - Biomolecular Medicine Imperial College London ______________________________________________ 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.
