[Rd] Wrong vector size reported by error message

[Oleg Sklyar]

Herve, it looks like 64-bit. I just tried another 32 bit version: 
Windows build R-2.4.1 under VMWare on the same 64 bit Ubuntu as in my 
post above and Windows version shows the same bug as you report:

R2.4.1 on Windows 2000 as guest system in VMWare Ubuntu 6.10 64bit
-----------
 > big <- 2:(2**30)
Fehler: kann Vektor der Größe 0 Kb nicht allozieren
 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252;LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252;LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

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

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Dr Oleg Sklyar | EBI-EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK | +44-1223-494466


Herve Pages wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
> 
> Oleg Sklyar wrote:
>> my R-SVN revision is 40458 compared to 40386 yours, could it be
>> corrected already?
> 
> No I don't think so. Maybe an architecture specific problem?
> You are on a 64-bit system, I'm on a 32-bit system.
> 
> I was able to reproduce on 3 systems so far (with any version of R):
>   - on my Pentium M laptop with Ubuntu 6.06
>   - on a Linux SUSE 9.2 32-bit system
>   - on a Core 1 Duo (32-bit) Mac Mini
> 
> All those systems are 32-bits.
> 
> I've tried on a couple of 64-bit systems and I don't get this problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> H.
> 
>> * ~: R
>>> 2**30
>> [1] 1073741824
>>> a<-2:1073741824
>> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 4194304 Kb
>>> 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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