[R] Error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Agustin Lobo wrote:

>
> While runing R1.3.0 on a Win95 machine,
> a process has produced the following error:
>
> Error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?)
> In addition: Warning message:
> Reached total allocation of 47Mb: see help(memory.size)
> Lost warning messages
>
> Now I cannot save the work (not too bad,
> I had used save.image() just prior to launch
> the process), but cannot quit the program:
>
> > save.image()
> Error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?)
> In addition: Warning message:
> Reached total allocation of 47Mb: see help(memory.size)
> Lost warning messages
> > q()
> Error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?)
>
>
> What should I do? Just kill R?

Delete some large objects.  And read the help page mentioned so you don't
get this problem again.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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