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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:23:31 -0600

2 messages · Chris Yoo, Brian Ripley

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As for the R memory problem I posted, I discussed it with a consultant but
we could not find solution.

Can anyone possibly answer this question?

As I told you briefly, I have a large data set (1017 Mb and about3,600 kb in
csv format). The data contains 14,013 rows (observation) and 44 columns.
I am using Dell Notebook I8000 (got it last year). It has 251,600 KB RAM and
C-drive where R folder is attached has 13.5GB free space.


I am able to read the data but whenever I try the following, I got error
message.
I even tried to increase memory assigned by doing
NULL
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1017272 Kb
NULL
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1017272 Kb
I also tried
TARGET C:\R\rw1061\bin\Rgui.exe --max-mem-size=2G

Thanks a lot,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
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You could try reading the rw-FAQ:  --max-mem-size=2G won't work, but
something like 1700M might.  But on a 256Mb machine this is not much
point.

I successfully did a regression of that size in 42Mb.  Something is wrong.
Maybe the `columns' are factors with vast numbers of levels, for example.
You really haven't told us anything like enough to go on.
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Chris Yoo wrote: