[R] Memory problem:Failing to increase dynamic memory

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Tapan Mehta wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use R1.7 on Linux. I having some
> problem with memory. The task has to handle 100 files
> of 10MB (each file is .CEL file) and is related to
> microarrays. I am trying to run this task on a 2GB or
> a 4 GB node of a Bewoulf Linux based cluster. However
> I am getting this error saying 'array size of 336000KB
> cannot be intialized'.
> 
>  I have seen the help of R for memory but I have not
> been able to increase the dynamic memory. I used to
> use the memory.limit(size = ) function in the older
> version of R(1.6.1)

That function only exists on Windows under R, so you are not comparing 
like with like.  The Linux port has not preset memory limit.  You probably 
are just running out of memory and need to reorganize your computations.

> .In the latest version however I
> am unable to achieve the task by using the function
> mem.limits(). It would be nice if somebody could help
> me out on this.

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