[R] R vs S-PLUS with regard to memory usage

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Anantha Prasad/NE/USDAFS" <aprasad at fs.fed.us> writes:

> Worked like magic thanks (I thought more I can allocate the better since my
> application does not know before hand what the datasize is going to be)....
> however, the step() function ran out of heap memory even after I allocated
> 15 MB ..... so, it looks like it is a no-win situation.....If I increase
> heap too much to satisfy step(), there is disk swapping (if not on my
> present machine, on others which do not have the luxury of 192 MB); if I
> don't it runs out of memory.... any suggestions other than wait for 1.2? If
> there are more people like me, it's some incentive to get 1.2 out soon!
> Thanks much.
> Prasad

It's scheduled for early December. If we release more frequently than
that, we find ourselves in the situation that polishing the code off
for a release gets in the way of introducing new features.

If you want to try the newer versions, daily snapshots are made
available via CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org). As these are not
release versions, they may (hopefully temporarily) have bugs,
sometimes bad ones, but most of the time the snapshots are perfectly
usable. You do need to compile them yourself, though.

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