[R] ggplot2 Error : cannot allocate vector of size 1.9 Gb

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Wed Mar 25 04:10:11 CET 2015


Another thought... if you have a ".RData" file in your working directory, you might want to delete or rename it.
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On March 24, 2015 7:44:37 PM PDT, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>Because no package loads 1.9GB of data when you load it into memory, so
>this has to be a bug. The first thing to do when the software is acting
>buggy is to update to current.
>
>Having done that, I think it is time to contact the maintainer (see
>?maintainer).
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>On March 24, 2015 7:18:29 PM PDT, Jam One <jamone_95134 at yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>>> sessionInfo()
>>R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09)
>>Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>Running under: Windows 7 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>>
>>locale:
>>[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
>>[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
>>[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
>>[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
>>
>>attached base packages:
>>[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
>>base     
>>
>>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>[1] digest_0.6.6 grid_3.1.3   gtable_0.1.2 tools_3.1.3 
>>
>>> library(ggplot2)Error : cannot allocate vector of size 1.9 Gb
>>In addition: Warning messages:
>>1: In get(Info[i, 1], envir = env) :
>>  Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size)
>>2: In get(Info[i, 1], envir = env) :
>>  Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size)
>>3: In get(Info[i, 1], envir = env) :
>>  Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size)
>>4: In get(Info[i, 1], envir = env) :
>>  Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size)
>>Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’
>>> memory.size(4000)
>>[1] 4000
>>> library(ggplot2)
>>Error : cannot allocate vector of size 1.9 Gb
>>Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ggplot2’
>>Just curious, why did you think that solution would work?
>>      From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us>
>>To: Jam One <jamone_95134 at yahoo.com>; "r-help at R-project.org"
>><r-help at r-project.org> 
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 4:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: [R] ggplot2 Error : cannot allocate vector of size 1.9
>Gb
>>   
>>Upgrade your copy of R to the latest.
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>>On March 23, 2015 11:36:09 PM PDT, Jam One <jamone_95134 at yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>>Dear All,
>>>I have a showstopper here. I cannot run a library(UsingR) because I
>>>cannot load the package 'ggplot2'.
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
>>>Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>>
>>>locale:
>>>[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
>>>States.1252  
>>>[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C             
> 
>>
>>>        
>>>[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
>>>
>>>attached base packages:
>>>[1] splines  grid      stats    graphics  grDevices utils    
>>>datasets  methods  
>>>[9] base    
>>>
>>>other attached packages:
>>>[1] Formula_1.2-0  survival_2.38-1 lattice_0.20-29 HistData_0.7-5 
>>>MASS_7.3-40    
>>>
>>>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>[1] digest_0.6.6 gtable_0.1.2 tools_3.1.0 
>>>> install.packages("ggplot2")
>>>Installing package into
>‘C:/Users/xxxxxxx/Documents/R/win-library/3.1’
>>>(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>>>trying URL
>>>'http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/ggplot2_1.0.1.zip'
>>>Content type 'application/zip' length 2675835 bytes (2.6 Mb)
>>>opened URL
>>>downloaded 2.6 Mb
>>>
>>>package ‘ggplot2’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>>
>>>The downloaded binary packages are in
>>>   
>>C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpSA08kR\downloaded_packages>
>>>memory.limit(4000)
>>>[1] 4000
>>>> library(UsingR)
>>>Loading required package: Hmisc
>>>Loading required package: ggplot2
>>>Error : cannot allocate vector of size 1.9 Gb
>>>In addition: Warning messages:
>>>1: package ‘UsingR’ was built under R version 3.1.3 
>>>2: package ‘Hmisc’ was built under R version 3.1.3 
>>>3: package ‘ggplot2’ was built under R version 3.1.3 
>>>Error: package ‘ggplot2’ could not be loaded
>>>
>>>Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem, and NO switching to a
>>>64-bit machine is not an option?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
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