Cannot resolve the "cannot allocate vector of size … " error

Hi,
just to be sure, have you also done the new steps required with Rtools 4.0 to put Rtools on your path? It’s described in section " Putting Rtools on the PATH" there:
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

I also had the error about ‘make’ not found because I first did not see that there was this extra step now.
Cheers

Could you try it outside of RStudio? Just open R (x64), and run an RStan example.

Is it loading a saved workspace from before? After opening R, run rm(list=ls()) and try again.

And what is ‘storage’?

mauthier, yes, I did, I followed the steps but the last step–installing from source–threw an error.
C:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.0/include" -DNDEBUG -Iyajl/api -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO -O2 -Wall -std=gnu99 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mstackrealign -c base64.c -o base64.o
sh: C:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
make: *** [C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.0/etc/i386/Makeconf:222: base64.o] Error 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘jsonlite’

  • removing ‘C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/jsonlite’
  • restoring previous ‘C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/jsonlite’
    Warning in install.packages :
    installation of package ‘jsonlite’ had non-zero exit status

Ran model from within R (x64) pointing to proper working directory and got the following:
Compilation argument:
C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.0/bin/x64/R CMD SHLIB file3f383f61ee.cpp 2> file3f383f61ee.cpp.err.txt
C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/g++ -m64 -std=c++1y -std=gnu++14 -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.0/include" -DNDEBUG -I"C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/Rcpp/include/" -I"C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/RcppEigen/include/" -I"C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/RcppEigen/include/unsupported" -I"C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/BH/include" -I"C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/StanHeaders/include/src/" -I"C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/StanHeaders/include/" -I"C:/Users/tschwoerer/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/rstan/include" -DEIGEN_NO_DEBUG -D_REENTRANT -DBOOST_DISABLE_ASSERTS -DBOOST_PENDING_INTEGER_LOG2_HPP -include stan/math/prim/mat/fun/Eigen.hpp -std=c++1y -march=native -O3 -march=native -mtune=native -c file3f383f61ee.cpp -o file3f383f61ee.o
sh: C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/g++: No such file or directory
make: *** [C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.0/etc/x64/Makeconf:229: file3f383f61ee.o] Error 127
Error in file(con, “r”) : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, “r”) :
cannot open file ‘file3f383f61ee.cpp.err.txt’: No such file or directory

Same compilation error after rm(list=ls())

What do you mean by "What is ‘storage’?

Seems like it is still looking for Rtools when it should be looking for rtools40 …

Are you absolutely, positively, 100% certain you have renamed or deleted your Makevars.win file, in Documents/.R/Makevars.win ? Because yes, it is looking for a compiler in C:/Rtools, which doesn’t exist.

And are you 100% certain you only have PATH="${RTOOLS40_HOME}\usr\bin;${PATH}" in Documents/.Renviron ?

And are you 100% certain you are starting with a clean workspace?

If so, then click start, and search for ‘environment variables’, then click ‘edit system environment variables’. Then click environment variables. Go to system variables, and edit Path. Remove only the line that has Rtools in it.

Then log out, log back in, and try Rstan again.

Could you also open R, and type Sys.getenv() and paste the output here?

  1. no, Makevars.win is in its location in C:\Users\tschwoerer\Documents.R but in Windows explorer the Type for that file is listed as Adobe CMS Extension
  2. yes
  3. yes
  4. Did not go this far as answer to 1. was “no”
    Then followed your next comment below

AGSDESKTOPJAVA C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.6
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APPDATA C:\Users\tschwoerer\AppData\Roaming
BINPREF C:/Rtools/mingw_(WIN)/bin/ ChocolateyInstall C:\ProgramData\chocolatey ChocolateyLastPathUpdate Wed Sep 26 17:18:32 2018 CommonProgramFiles C:\Program Files\Common Files CommonProgramFiles(x86) C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files CommonProgramW6432 C:\Program Files\Common Files COMPUTERNAME ANC-MB0910A18 ComSpec C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe DriverData C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\DriverData GFORTRAN_STDERR_UNIT -1 GFORTRAN_STDOUT_UNIT -1 GOPATH C:\Users\tschwoerer\go GOROOT C:\Go\ HOME C:\Users\tschwoerer\Documents HOMEDRIVE P: HOMEPATH \ HOMESHARE \\anc-filesrv01.ua.ad.alaska.edu\employeeHome\30458916
LOCALAPPDATA C:\Users\tschwoerer\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER \ANC-ADUA01
MSYS2_ENV_CONV_EXCL R_ARCH
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS 8
OneDrive C:\Users\tschwoerer\OneDrive
OS Windows_NT
PATH C:\rtools40\usr\bin;C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Program
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Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\mingw_32\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Go\bin;C:\Program
Files\Git\cmd;C:\Hugo\bin;C:\Users\tschwoerer\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin;C:\Users\tschwoerer\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37;C:\Users\tschwoerer\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX
2.9\miktex\bin\x64;%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;
PATHEXT .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9,
GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL 6
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ProgramData C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86) C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432 C:\Program Files
PSModulePath C:\Program
Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules
PUBLIC C:\Users\Public
R_ARCH /x64
R_COMPILED_BY gcc 8.3.0
R_HOME C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-40~1.0
R_LIBS_USER C:\Users\tschwoerer\Documents/R/win-library/4.0
R_USER C:\Users\tschwoerer\Documents
RTOOLS40_HOME C:\rtools40
SESSIONNAME Console
SystemDrive C:
SystemRoot C:\WINDOWS
TEMP C:\Users\TSCHWO~1\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP C:\Users\TSCHWO~1\AppData\Local\Temp
UATDATA C:\WINDOWS\CCM\UATData\D9F8C395-CAB8-491d-B8AC-179A1FE1BE77
USERDNSDOMAIN UA.AD.ALASKA.EDU
USERDOMAIN UA
USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE
UA
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windir C:\WINDOWS

Also, here is my system variable window
image

Ok, again - You should not have anything defined in your Makevars.win right now. Move, delete, or rename it to something else. BINPREF is pointing to C:/Rtools, and it shouldn’t be.

Do you have a .Rprofile somewhere defining BINPREF?

It seems like there is some configuration, somewhere on your system (Makevars.win, .Renviron, .Rprofile) that is telling R that the compiler should be in BINPREF, defined somewhere as being C:/Rtools.

Edit: As for Windows saying that Makevars.win is an adobe CMS type, ignore it. Windows has a really rudimentary, stupid way of finding filetypes. It thinks Makevars.win is really a file named Makevars with extension win, which it apparently thinks is adobe. It is in reality a plain text file that defines compiler options on windows - hence why I said it should be removed from the equation for now.

.Rprofile contains:
Sys.setenv(BINPREF = "C:/Rtools/mingw_$(WIN)/bin/")

.Renviron contains:
PATH="${RTOOLS40_HOME}\usr\bin;${PATH}"

I can’t see what .Renviron contains, but I assume it is fine.

Remove Sys.setenv(BINPREF = “C:/Rtools/mingw_$(WIN)/bin/”) from your .Rprofile.

Also… move or rename Documents/.R/Makevars.win.

Ok see .Renviron above.

Model seems to compile properly now.

Is there anything else I should know to not run into the same issue again when updating to new versions or R? What about the edits to .Rprofile and the renaming of Makevars.win?

Do you happen to know which solution solved the problem, for future users to know?

As for what not to run: You do not need to specify a compiler. You may want to include a Makevars.win that has compiler optimizations defined, but not paths to compilers. There are some listed around here, and they look like CXX14FLAGS += -march=native -mtune=native -O3 -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-function -fPIC if I recall correctly. That’s what I have on linux, unsure whether those options hold up on windows. Basically, just avoid modifying paths, or specifying which compiler to use, unless you know for certain what you’re doing. Future versions of R should continue working as far as I know.

Thanks a lot for sticking with me through this very long problem solving act.
Remove Sys.setenv(BINPREF = “C:/Rtools/mingw_$(WIN)/bin/”) from your .Rprofile.
And
moving or rename Documents/.R/Makevars.win.
solved the problem