[R] nlme and memory

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Bill Simpson wrote:

> I am trying to follow an example in Pineiro & Bates's book
>
> library(nlme)
> data(Soybean)
> soy.lis<-nlsList(weight~SSlogis(Time,Asym,xmid,scal),data=Soybean)
> soy.nlme<-nlme(soy.lis)
> Error: Calloc could not allocate (151974496 of 8) memory
>
> This is not a large problem-- only 412 observations. I am using R-1.2.3
> with automatic memory allocation. Does this message mean that I need to
> run this example on a machine with 151 MB of physical RAM available (even
> with X, R, etc loaded)? Or maybe I can increase my swap space? Or maybe
> this error message is wrong somehow?? This seems like a large memory
> requirement for this problem.

Runs fine on both Solaris and Linux here, with no noticeable memory
growth.

Do you have the current nlme, built for that version of R?  When I've
seen things like that, it has been due to version mis-matches.

Incidentally, the message means 8*151Mb, so I suspect your VM was
really not large enough, and memory allocated by Calloc  is not
(and never has been) part of the `automatic memory allocation', i.e.
the cons cells and vector heap.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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