[R] increasing memory limit in Windows Server 2008 64-bit

Michael Styer mstyer at stanford.edu
Mon Nov 24 22:09:26 CET 2008


Hello,

I'm working with a very large dataset in R on a computer running 64-bit 
Windows Server 2008 Standard with 32GB of RAM. According to the R for 
Windows FAQ, the maximum value allowed for max-mem-size is 4095MB. Is it 
possible to run R with a higher memory limit on this system? I've tried 
changing memory.limit() in the R console but it claims the system has a 
4-GB address limit, which I don't believe to be the case here.

Thanks for your help.

Mike



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