[R] R process gets killed spontaneously

[Uwe Ligges]

Peng Yu wrote:
> My R process has been killed for a few times, although the system
> administrator did not do so. It happened when R attempted to allocate
> a lot of memory. I'm wondering whether R would spontaneously kill
> itself if it can not allocate enough memory?


It does not kill itself. If it was not some out-of-memory kill process 
of your OS, then you may have seen some segfault. We need reproducible 
code and all the details described in the posting guide.

Uwe Ligges


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