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Increase max number of DLLs in R Ubuntu from Rstudio

I kept getting the ``maximal number of DLLs reached...` error, but the solution here didn't work for me from command line(this is OS dependent, I'm on Linux). Read on to see how I increased DLLs from within R.

Solution

  • I was looking around, and most solutions are very manual. I liked the editing method here We can fix this from inside R:

    install.packages("usethis")
usethis::edit_r_environ()

    This will open up an editor for a newly created .Renviron file, where we write in:

    R_MAX_NUM_DLLS=256

    If you need more than this, you can increase it based on operating system

    What this is doing is creating an .Renviron file in your home directory, and creating the R_MAX_NUM_DLLS environment variable, which will be 256 at this point. We can now load up to 256 rather than the default 100.