Hi all, R newbie, but have been reading the boards and learning lots. I have read all documents & list-serve responses I could about R and memory but still no answer.
QUESTION: When the sizes of your objects exceeds your available RAM, R switches to Virtual Memory right? If so, why does it so often run out of memory and return an "unable to allocate XXX KB" error shortly after switching to virtual memory when there is PLENTY of virtual memory to be had (I think)? I have noticed this on both my mac and my pc, so it doesn't seem to be OS specific. Any help in understanding this would be most appreciated! - J Jackson ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
