[Rd] R crashes for large formulas in lm() (PR#8180)

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Ken Knoblauch" <knoblauch at lyon.inserm.fr> writes:

> Oops, sorry.  I didn't notice the ^2...
> Nevermind.

You could still have a point, but with 255^2 terms (all but 255 of
which will be redundant since x^2 == x:x == x in modeling language).
Presumably someone thought that noone in their right mind would
specify 65000 terms...


> ________________
> Have you considered that 8 variables will give you
> sum(choose(8,1:8))
> [1] 255
> terms.
> That's a suspicious number.  Have you checked whether there is a limit in
> the code?
> 
> -------------------------
> Full_Name: Hallgeir Grinde
> Version: 2.1.1
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (144.127.1.1)
> 
> 
> While using lm(y~(x*z*c*...*v)^2) R crashes/closes if the numbers of
> variables
> are at least 8.
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