[S] error message at session's dawn

[Eric Elguero]

Dear S-plus users,

how could I get rid of the following error message, which appears
every time I run S-plus (vs3.3, W95)

S-PLUS : Copyright 1988, 1995 MathSoft, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.3 Release 1 for MS Windows 3.1 : 1995
Working data will be in _Data
Error in get.default(names.[i], where = where, immediate ..: Cannot allocate 6000000 bytes:
options("object.size") is 5000000: see options help file
Dumped
>

I've already had this problem, but there was an explanation: I had erased
some files from windows in the _Data directory; this time I didn't. The only
unusual command I used is the following:
>uu_dos("dir _Data")
The above message disappears if I run S-plus from another directory.

as a subsidiary question: how does S-plus translate object names into
file names, and is the translation algorithm stable across S-plus and
Windows versions? (I'm trying to write an improved version of "ls")

Eric Elguero

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[Daniel G.C. Rainham]

Eric,
Try:
First <- function(){options(object.size=Inf)}
At startup, this function will run automatically and set your object size
limit to infinity. (If you'd prefer, you can set this to a finite number,
as long as it is greater than 6000000, given in the error message.) After
creating this function, please shut down S-Plus and start it up again.

Daniel
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