[R] memory problems

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 24 Jan 2003, Ernesto Jardim wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm computing a bca interval using bca.ci from the boot package.
> 
> When I try to use this I get an error 
> 
> 
> > library(boot)
> > boot(logglm.data,boot.fishpower,2500,coef.vec=coeflm.vec)->blm8901
> > bca.ci(blm8901,index=29)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 456729 Kb
> 
> However my machine has 2GB of memory and without R running I only have
> 112M of memory used.

How much memory is it actually using?  It is complaining about allocating
an *additional* 450Mb.  Look at top / Task Manager / whatever.

> Is there something I can do to be able to perform this analysis ? (I can
> not by more memory ;-)

Why are you returning so many results (apparently) when you only want one 
index?  Try returning just one?

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