[R] allocMatrix limits

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:

> I am getting an error "allocMatrix: too many elements specified" when I am 
> trying to create large matrix or vector (about 1 billion elements).
>
> How can I find out limits on allocMatrix? Can I increase them?

?"Memory-limits", and you cannot increase them unless you have a system 
which has larger signed integers.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Vadim.
>
> PS: I am running R on SUSE10 on
>
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