Rstudio on server abnormally terminates when loading large file into workspace

Question

I'm running Rstudio on an EC2 instance

• t1.micro
• Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-40-virtual x86_64)

and I am experiencing problems when trying to load an .RData file into the workspace. The file is 250MB in size and was created on my local machine (Mac OS Mavericks, RStudio v 0.97.551).

I uploaded the file via FTP and then tried to load it into the workspace. After some minutes I get: "The previous R session was abnormally terminated due to an unexpected crash. You may have lost workspace data as a result of this crash". Uploaded smaller files (e.g. 1 MB) works fine.

Maybe I should mention that I have one R script running in the background (I started it from the terminal window) on this EC2 instance. But I'm not sure if that's the problem, given that smaller files can be uploaded.

Any ideas on this?

Answer 1

As zero323 pointed out, it was a memory issue. A medium EC2 instance did the job!