Hi Samuel,

please also have a look at ?memory.limit. You can set this limit at R startup. It is in megabytes. Maybe R Studio sets it at runtime.

Best
Tomas

On 4/7/20 3:57 PM, Samuel Granjeaud IR/Inserm wrote:
Hi Tomas,

Many thanks for your answer.

Here is a copy of a fresh session under RStudio, and after a copy under Rgui. Strangely enough the result of memory.limit() is not the same. Without your question I would not have looked to RGui, being used to work with RStudio.

The value under RGui sounds to correspond to the total RAM of the computer. It makes me noticing that the value is in MB.

The value under Rstudio was so huge (1.759219e+13) that I just interpreted it as GB. But I was totally wrong. So in fact I don't know what it refers to. The documentation says "For a 64-bit versions of R under 64-bit Windows the limit is currently 8Tb.", but it looks like being 16TB, which my computer don't have of course.

I still have to understand why my colleague has a problem of memory allocation (cannot allocate vector of size 12.6 Gb).

Sorry for the wrong interpretation, but thanks for the help,
Samuel

--- RStudio

R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> memory.limit()
[1] 1.759219e+13
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.3 tools_3.6.3
>

--- RGui

R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> ls()
character(0)
> memory.limit()
[1] 32627
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                   LC_TIME=French_France.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.3
>


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