On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 17:36 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> readBin is intended to read a few items at a time, not 10^9. You are
> probably getting 32-bit integer overflow inside your OS, since the
> number of bytes you are trying to read in one go exceeds 2GB.
>
> Don't do that: read say a m
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
readBin is intended to read a few items at a time, not 10^9. You are
probably getting 32-bit integer overflow inside your OS, since the number of
bytes you are trying to read in one go exceeds 2GB.
Don't do that: read say a million at time.
And B
readBin is intended to read a few items at a time, not 10^9. You are
probably getting 32-bit integer overflow inside your OS, since the
number of bytes you are trying to read in one go exceeds 2GB.
Don't do that: read say a million at time.
And BTW, if these really are unsigned ints you will
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
> sy
it's me, Florian (just subscribed to R list, but my messages are still held for
approval )
fail means: It executes without an error, allocates the specified length (n=)
as zeroes, but does not actually read any data in.
florian
On 1 Sep 2011, at 16:30, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 01/09/2011 11:
On 01/09/2011 11:13 AM, Benton, Paul wrote:
Posting for a friend
What does "fails" mean, i.e. what is the error message? (You might want
to get Florian online here.)
Duncan Murdoch
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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
wrote:
> Posting for a friend
>
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>
> From: "Geier, Flori
Posting for a friend
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Date: September 1, 2011 4:10:53 PM GMT+01:00
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