My bet would be a .RData file. They extract data from shared objects in memory but do not restore that data in shared objects, so there is a risk of memory requirements exploding.
If this is actually a problem specific to the Mac, you might want to ask on R-sig-mac. On October 25, 2022 6:33:10 AM PDT, ken eagle <eaglek2...@gmail.com> wrote: >I thought I was loading a ~300M binary (bigwig) file into another >application, but the window changed to the R GUI without my realizing it >and R tried to load the file. I’m on a Mac M1-based laptop with system >12.5.1 and 8G of ram, running R 4.2.1 (Intel version). According to >ActivityMonitor, R grabs ~45G (!) of memory before the system warns me that >it is out of application memory and I have to force quit R. I have since >tried locating/moving/editing .Rprofile, .Rapp.history, or .RData files >with no impact. Starting R from a Terminal session works fine but has no >impact on the problem. I have tried restarting R, restarting the laptop, >and re-installing R, all with no change; on restarting R, it just starts >reloading the file it can’t handle (CtrlC and ESC don’t do anything). I >have changed the directory name of the offending file, and the filename >itself, without changing what happens upon starting R. I’ve also created a >new .Rprofile that successfully executes but does not prevent the load >problem unless the .Rprofile includes a quit() command. > >Any suggestions? > >Ken > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
