[R] Fishers exact test

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Simon  Bond" <bond at graylab.ac.uk> writes:

> Dear All,
> 
> R keeps crashing when I use fisher.test . I'm using it on 2 x c (where c
> varies from 2 to 7) table, the total number of counts is 918. It does work
> with some of the categorisations of the data, but it's failing on those
> categorisations where the Chi-squared approximation breaks down due to
> small expected counts. A conglomeration of categories is not feasible.  
> 
> Is my memory too small ( if so which one of the parameters nsize, vsize
> needs changing) or do I need to change the parameter for 'working space'
> within the command? Or is it soemthing else?

An example where it crashes, and some indication of your system and
the version of ctest would be helpful....

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