[Rd] Wrong vector size reported by error message

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Feb 6 00:32:54 CET 2007


Oleg Sklyar wrote:
> my R-SVN revision is 40458 compared to 40386 yours, could it be 
> corrected already?
>
> * ~: R
>  > 2**30
> [1] 1073741824
>  > a<-2:1073741824
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 4194304 Kb
>   
There could be system dependencies. I get

> a<-2:1073741824

> a<-2:(2**30)

> gc()

            used   (Mb) gc trigger   (Mb)   max used   (Mb)

Ncells    235404   12.6     467875   25.0     350000   18.7

Vcells 536991796 4097.0 1127800953 8604.5 1073863120 8193.0

> 


;-)

(Frankly, I had forgotten about the size of that swap partition...)

-pd


>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-22 r40548)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
> [7] "base"
>  >
>
> --
> Dr Oleg Sklyar | EBI-EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK | +44-1223-494466
>
>
> hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my system, I get the following error message:
>>
>>   > big <- 2:(2**30)
>>   Error: cannot allocate vector of size 0 Kb
>>
>> Note the wrong "size 0 Kb" in the message!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> H.
>>
>>
>>     
>>> sessionInfo()
>>>       
>> R version 2.5.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-01-05 r40386)
>> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
>> [7] "base"
>>
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