Re: [R] allocating vector memory > 1 GByte on Windows XP / Vista / 7

2009-11-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
In answer to your 4th question: you are trying to allocate an object whose size is 1/4 of the addressable memory on your machine. You might be lucky and have that much available in one piece, but I'm guessing you don't, which is why the allocation fails. So don't worry about questions 1,2, o

[R] allocating vector memory > 1 GByte on Windows XP / Vista / 7

2009-11-30 Thread Jochen Albrecht
Let me begin stating that I read all help files and faq's on the subject matter (there aren't more than about a dozen) but either did not find solutions or found them not to work. Here is the issue. I am trying to run a spatial regression on a medium-sized dataset. Part of the functions in the s