[Rd] memory footprint of readRDS()

[Joris Meys]

Dear all,

I tried to read in a 3.8Gb RDS file on a computer with 16Gb available
memory. To my astonishment, the memory footprint of R rises quickly to over
13Gb and the attempt ends with an error that says "cannot allocate vector
of size 5.8Gb".

I would expect that 3 times the memory would be enough to read in that
file, but apparently I was wrong. I checked the memory.limit() and that one
gave me a value of more than 13Gb. So I wondered if this was to be
expected, or if there could be an underlying reason why this file doesn't
want to open.

Thank you in advance
Joris

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Joris Meys
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