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R problem

2 messages · Bruce John, Mike Marchywka

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I'm using R version 2.12.0

I'm trying to open a stata file (.dta); but I keep getting the message:

Error in read.dta("c:/p4subset_biology.dta") :
Calloc could not allocate (-603966867 of 4) memory

What does this mean?

The file should contain lots of physiological data. 

Thank you for your help.

-Bruce
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how big is the file? Negative numbers related to memory allocs
often mean too big- the signed int size thing overflows and becomes
negative. Boundaries are often at a few Gigs, the sign bit on a 32
bit int is bit 31.