Should be patched in R-devel, will be available shortly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Stefan Th. Gries > Version: 2.2.1 > OS: Windows XP (Home and Professional) > Submission from: (NULL) (68.6.34.104) > > > The problem is this: I have a vector of two character strings. > > >>text<-c("This is a first example sentence.", "And this is a second example > > sentence.") > > If I now look for word boundaries with regexpr, this is what I get: > >>regexpr("\\b", text, perl=TRUE) > > [1] 1 1 > attr(,"match.length") > [1] 0 0 > > So far, so good. But with gregexpr I get: > > >>gregexpr("\\b", text, perl=TRUE) > > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 524288 Kb > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: Reached total allocation of 1015Mb: see help(memory.size) > 2: Reached total allocation of 1015Mb: see help(memory.size) > > Why don't I get the locations and extensions of all word boundaries? > > I am using R 2.2.1 on a machine running Windows XP: > >>R.version > > _ > platform i386-pc-mingw32 > arch i386 > os mingw32 > system i386, mingw32 > status > major 2 > minor 2.1 > year 2005 > month 12 > day 20 > svn rev 36812 > language R > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >
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