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Message-ID: <52A96D12.5070408@gmail.com>
Date: 2013-12-12T08:00:18Z
From: Romeo Kienzler
Subject: Logistic Regression with 200K features in R?

Dear List,

I'm quite new to R and want to do logistic regression with a 200K 
feature data set (around 150 training examples).

I'm aware that I should use Naive Bayes but I have a more general 
question about the capability of R handling very high dimensional data.

Please consider the following R code where "mygenestrain.tab" is a 150 
by 200000 matrix:

traindata <- read.table('mygenestrain.tab');
mylogit <- glm(V1 ~ ., data = traindata, family = "binomial");

When executing this code I get the following error:

Error in terms.formula(formula, data = data) :
   allocMatrix: too many elements specified
Calls: glm ... model.frame -> model.frame.default -> terms -> terms.formula
Execution halted

Is this because R can't handle 200K features or am I doing something 
completely wrong here?

Thanks a lot for your help!

best Regards,

Romeo