[R] Memory Problems

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Joanna Mills <millsje at mscs.dal.ca> writes:

> I have an R program which basically reads in data. It then
> calls a  C program which performs numerical integration until converging
>  to a solution.  The result is then passed back from C to R.
> Unfortunately, when running this program, the virtual
> memory associated with it explodes -> 2GIG!. Does anyone know what might
> be causing this or can suggest possiblie ways to debug?

Sounds as if the C routine is allocating memory and not freeing it?

You may want to check up on R_alloc (now where did we document that? I
can find various hints in help(Memory), help(dyn.load), and help(.C),
and in the R-external that will be in the upcoming release, but
nothing really coherent.)  

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