Hi, On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Stephen Sefick <sas0...@auburn.edu> wrote: > R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03) > Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > 6GB RAM, intel core2 quad, Scientific Linux 6.4 > > I am using tree in the tree package. and I get the following error: > > Error: cannot allocate vector of size 2.0 Gb > > shouldn't I be able to allocate more memory than 2GB? I am sure that I am > missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't remember who on the R list had previously put it this way, but it puts it best, I think: The 2gb is the straw that broke the camel's back. R has likely been allocating more and more memory for whatever it's trying to do and at some point it asked the OS for another 2gb more, and *bam* ... toasted. If you look at top (or htop) and monitor the R process as it's running, I reckon that's what you'll see, too. HTH, -stee -- Steve Lianoglou Computational Biologist Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Genentech ______________________________________________ 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.
