From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Thu Jan  4 09:55:38 2001
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:55:38 +0100
Subject: [Rd] memory trouble
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10101032051260.7468-100000@auk.stats>
References: <200101031602.RAA15155@mailgate3.cinetic.de>
 <Pine.GSO.4.05.10101032051260.7468-100000@auk.stats>
Message-ID: <200101040955.KAA03084@lynne.ethz.ch>

In spite of Brian's good points, 
I believe we should help the users more.

R-1.1.1 --vanilla     had

  rnorm(1e7)

  >> Error: heap memory (6144 Kb) exhausted [needed 78125 Kb more]
  >>       See "help(Memory)" on how to increase the heap size.

which is much more helpful
than the

  >> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 39062 Kb

that R-1.2.0  reports  (much much more rarely though, 
		        I couldn't reproduce it in a few tries !)

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[Rd] memory trouble
Martin Maechler