can I set memory size in R?

Question

I'm running this model:

library('nnet')
test <- multinom(events ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4 + X5 + X6 + X7 + X8 + X9 + X10 + X11, data = data)

And I got this error:

Error: cannot allocate vector of size 313.3 Mb

Is there a way to fix this? For example is there somewhere in R that I can set memory, like the "setmem" in Stata? Thanks!

Answer 1

Set the memory limit and extend max number of your R by following commands:

memory.limit()
# set max memory usage is 2G
memory.size(max=2000)

Case like this as Jenny's comments

memory.size()
#[1] 104.15
memory.limit()
#[1] 7888
a <- matrix(0, ncol=5000, nrow=5000)
memory.size()
#[1] 296.07
memory.size(max=8000)
#[1] 8000
memory.limit()
#[1] 8000
memory.size()
#[1] 297.23
b <- matrix(0, ncol=10000, nrow=10000)
memory.size()
#[1] 1059.07