Re: [Rd] --max-vsize

2011-07-26 Thread Christophe Rhodes
Prof Brian Ripley writes: > Point 1 is as documented: you have exceeded the maximum integer and it > does say that it gives NA. So the only 'odd' is reporting that you > did not read the documentation. I'm sorry; I thought that my message made it clear that I was aware that the NA came from exc

Re: [Rd] --max-vsize

2011-07-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Point 1 is as documented: you have exceeded the maximum integer and it does say that it gives NA. So the only 'odd' is reporting that you did not read the documentation. Point 2 is R not using the correct units for --max-vsize (it used the number of Vcells, as was once documented), and I have

[Rd] --max-vsize

2011-07-21 Thread Christophe Rhodes
Hi, In both R 2.13 and the SVN trunk, I observe odd behaviour with the --max-vsize command-line argument: 1. passing a largeish value (about 260M or greater) makes mem.limits() report NA for the vsize limit; gc() continues to report a value... 2. ...but that value (and the actual limit) is wr