Thank you, everybody.
Bill - do I interpret your response correctly if I say: we should
check if tuneR is handling .wav files better than mp3 files.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:53 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote:
> tuneR::readMP3 may not be allocating (or freeing) memory correctly.  On both
> Linux and Windows I get the following (where 'jingle.mp3' is a sample mp3 that
> comes with Processing 2.1 which has a quarter million samples in it).  If I do
> this as a sequence of top-level expression instead of as a for loop R does not
> crash.  Perhaps you should talk with tuneR's maintainer, who could run 
> valgrind
> over it.
>
>> library(tuneR)
> tuneR >= 1.0 has changed its Wave class definition.
> Use updateWave(object) to convert Wave objects saved with previous
> versions of tuneR.
>> b <- readMP3("jingle.mp3")
>> for(i in 1:100){cat(i,"");b <- readMP3("jingle.mp3")}
> 1 2
>  *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x3a81000, cause 'memory not mapped'
>
> Traceback:
>  1: .Call("do_read_mp3", data, package = "tuneR")
>  2: readMP3("jingle.mp3")
>
> Possible actions:
> 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
> 2: normal R exit
> 3: exit R without saving workspace
> 4: exit R saving workspace
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Jeff Newmiller
> <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> It is your responsibility (not mine) to simplify your example to the point 
>> where it is small, self-contained, and reproducible (see the footer of this 
>> message). In fact, doing so often highlights the issue to you before you 
>> share it. If any old downloadable mp3 file can be used to reproduce the 
>> problem then you would not need to share yours. (Note that this list strips 
>> off most attachments, so links are better anyway.)
>>
>> I suspect that one file read repeatedly might create the problem... if it 
>> doesn't, then that would be helpful to know. In any event, your "example" is 
>> missing the key element of repetition, so it is not hardly reproducible. The 
>> extra things you are doing to make it loop are likely to be important here.
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>> On October 20, 2014 9:05:45 AM PDT, Dimitri Liakhovitski 
>> <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Jeff,
>>>
>>>here is what I do with each file using library(tuneR):
>>>
>>>b<-readMP3("cairnomount.mp3")
>>>myrange<-range(b@left)
>>>write.table(myrange,"x myrange.txt",sep="\t")
>>>
>>>Would you like me to attach a bunch of large mp3 files?
>>>I don't feel I have the right to clog people's inboxes with large
>>>files.
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jeff Newmiller
>>><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> You don't say what processing you are doing.. the answer to your
>>>question
>>>> is very likely there. To communicate effectively on this mailing
>>>list,
>>>> self-contained examples are needed. And in order to not corrupt the
>>>example
>>>> you will need to post in plain text.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> On October 20, 2014 8:30:21 AM PDT, Dimitri Liakhovitski <
>>>> dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >Dear Rers,
>>>> >
>>>> >I am trying to run a for-loop in R.
>>>> >During each iteration I read in an mp3 file and do some basic
>>>> >processing.
>>>> >If I do what I need to do for each file one by one - it works fine.
>>>> >But once I start running a loop, it soon runs out of memory and
>>>says:
>>>> >can't
>>>> >allocate a vector of size...
>>>> >In each iteration of my loop I always overwrite the previously
>>>created
>>>> >object and do gc().
>>>> >
>>>> >Any hints on how to fight this?
>>>> >
>>>> >Thanks a lot!
>>>> >
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