[R] R 2.10.0: Error in gsub/calloc

[Uwe Ligges]

richard.liu at pueo-owl.ch wrote:
> I'm running R 2.10.0 under Mac OS X 10.5.8; however, I don't think this
> is a Mac-specific problem.
> 
> I have a very large (158,908 possible sentences, ca. 58 MB) plain text
> document d which I am
> trying to tokenize:  t <- strapply(d, "\\w+", perl = T).  I am
> encountering the following error:


What is strapply() and what is d?

Uwe Ligges




> Error in base::gsub(pattern, rs, x, ...) :
>   Calloc could not allocate (-1398215180 of 1) memory
> 
> This happens regardless of whether I run in 32- or 64-bit mode.  The
> machine has 8 GB of RAM, so
> I can hardly believe that RAM is a problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
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