Hi, I'm using R2.9.0 on Windows Vista, and want to increase the available memory as I get error message like for example "R cannot allocate a vector of length x" etc. Please let me know how I can do it. I tried to follow some old links ( https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-July/023169.html) for help, but it seems they don't work thatway anymore. Thank you ! Cheers, Sana [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Put more memory in your machine or (in case you already have lots of memory) switch to a 64 bit system. You could also think about whether the computation you are doing is even feasible (for example computing a distance matrix between many objects) or you could consider (for certain tasks) packages that operate in bounded memory. All of this is hard to give advice on. The old ways of increasing memory on windows machine by command line switches are in general not needed anymore, as far as I understand (but since I don't use windows, I don't _know_) Kasper On Jun 14, 2009, at 21:24 , santana sarma wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using R2.9.0 on Windows Vista, and want to increase the > available memory > as I get error message like for example "R cannot allocate a vector > of > length x" etc. > > Please let me know how I can do it. I tried to follow some old links ( > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-July/023169.html) for > help, but > it seems they don't work thatway anymore. > > Thank you ! > > Cheers, > Sana > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor

If you have 3-4 GB of RAM, check out this link regarding using BCDEdit to set an "increaseuserva" variable. This is for Windows Vista systems and it worked for me. John http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa906211.aspx -------------------------------------------------- From: "santana sarma" <aimanusarma@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:24 PM To: <bioconductor at="" stat.math.ethz.ch=""> Subject: [BioC] Increase memory for R > Hi, > > I'm using R2.9.0 on Windows Vista, and want to increase the available > memory > as I get error message like for example "R cannot allocate a vector of > length x" etc. > > Please let me know how I can do it. I tried to follow some old links ( > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-July/023169.html) for help, but > it seems they don't work thatway anymore. > > Thank you ! > > Cheers, > Sana > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor