[R] Puzzling "Execution halted"

[Gang Chen]

Thanks for the pointer!

Unfortunately it doesn't look like a memory issue: /var/log/messages
contains nothing about memory problems. And the Linux system has
enough RAM for this computation.

Gang

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan at club.fr> wrote:
> Le mardi 20 novembre 2012 à 12:54 -0500, Gang Chen a écrit :
>> I wrote an R program that does heavy computations with hundreds of
>> lines of code. It's running fine both interactively and in batch mode
>> on a Mac OS X computer. The program also has no problem running on a
>> Linux system (Fedora 14) interactively. However, when I try it on the
>> terminal in batch mode on the Linux system, it chokes in the middle of
>> the computation with the "Execution halted" error message.
>>
>> I already put try or tryCatch in those places where computation may
>> throw an error. And the warnings are set in default (options(warn=1)).
>> I wish I could provide the code for help, but that seems impractical.
>> How to debug this?
> Have a look at your /var/log/messages: it might well be the
> out-of-memory killer killing your R process because it eats too much
> RAM...
>
> My two cents