[R] Problem in executing R on server

[Erik Iverson]

How much RAM is installed in your Sun Solaris server?  How much RAM is 
installed on your PC?

Jason Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am actually trying to do some matrix multiplications of large datasets 
> of 3000 columns and 150 rows.
> 
> And I am running R version 2.7.0. <http://2.7.0.>
> 
> I tried setting  R --min-vsize=10M --max-vsize=100M --min-nsize=500k 
> --max-nsize=1000M
> 
> Yet I still get:-
> 
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 17.7 Mb
> 
> I am running on Sun Solaris server.
> 
> Please advise.
> Thanks.
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Erik Iverson <iverson at biostat.wisc.edu 
> <mailto:iverson at biostat.wisc.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Jason Lee wrote:
> 
>         Hi R-listers,
> 
>         I have problem in executing my R on server. It returns me
> 
>         Error: cannot allocate vector of size 15.8 Mb
> 
>         each time when i execute R on the server. But it doesnt give me
>         any problem
>         when i try executing on my own Pc (except it runs extremely slow).
> 
>         Any pointers to this? I tried to read the FAQ on this issue
>         before in the
>         archive but it seems there is no one solution to this.
> 
> 
>     And that is because there is no one cause to this issue.  I might
>     guess your 'server' has less memory than your 'PC', but you didn't
>     say anything your respective setups, or what you are even trying to
>     do with R.
> 
> 
>      I tried to
> 
>         simplified my code but it seems the problem is still the same.
> 
> 
> 
>         Please advise. Thanks.
> 
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