From khansen at stat.Berkeley.EDU  Mon Nov  6 19:50:08 2006
From: khansen at stat.Berkeley.EDU (khansen at stat.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Mon,  6 Nov 2006 19:50:08 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] memory issues with new release (PR#9344)
Message-ID: <20061106185008.C4A1D5727B@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

It would be helpful to produce a script that reproduces the error on =20
your system. And include details on the size of your data set and =20
what you are doing with it. It is unclear what function is actually =20
causing the error and such. Really, in order to do something about it =20=

you need to show how to actually obtain the error.

To my knowledge nothing _major_ has happened with the memory =20
consumption, but of course R could use slightly more memory for =20
specific purposes.

But chances are that this is not really memory related but more =20
related to the functions your are using - perhaps a bug or perhaps a =20
user error.

Kasper

On Nov 6, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Derek Stephen Elmerick wrote:

> thanks for the friendly reply. i think my description was fairly =20
> clear: i
> import a large dataset and run a model. using the same dataset, the
> process worked previously and it doesn't work now. if the new =20
> version of R
> requires more memory and this compromises some basic data analyses, =20=

> i would
> label this as a bug. if this memory issue was mentioned in the
> documentation, then i apologize. this email was clearly not well =20
> received,
> so if there is a more appropriate place to post these sort of =20
> questions,
> that would be helpful.
>
> -derek
>
>
>
>
> On 06 Nov 2006 18:20:33 +0100, Peter Dalgaard =20
> <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
> wrote:
>>
>> delmeric at gmail.com writes:
>>
>>> Full_Name: Derek Elmerick
>>> Version: 2.4.0
>>> OS: Windows XP
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (38.117.162.243)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> hello -
>>>
>>> i have some code that i run regularly using R version 2.3.x . the =20=

>>> final
>> step of
>>> the code is to build a multinomial logit model. the dataset is =20
>>> large;
>> however, i
>>> have not had issues in the past. i just installed the 2.4.0 =20
>>> version of R
>> and now
>>> have memory allocation issues. to verify, i ran the code again =20
>>> against
>> the 2.3
>>> version and no problems. since i have set the memory limit to the =20=

>>> max
>> size, i
>>> have no alternative but to downgrade to the 2.3 version. thoughts?
>>
>> And what do you expect the maintainers to do about it? ( I.e. why are
>> you filing a bug report.)
>>
>> You give absolutely no handle on what the cause of the problem might
>> be, or even to reproduce it. It may be a bug, or maybe just R
>> requiring more memory to run than previously.
>>
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[Rd] memory issues with new release (PR#9344)
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