[BioC] Increase memory for R

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

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
>
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