[R] memory problems with lm

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This may or may not be the same problem (which is already solved). But 
please read the section on BUGS in the R FAQ and set up a reproducible 
example.  Then try out the current version of r-patched (one dated 
tomorrow or later, to be safe) and see if the problem recurs.  If it does, 
please file a bug report.

My guess is that eff.fro$std.dev is a 1D array (use dim or str to find 
out), and you did not intend that.

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Adrian Dragulescu wrote:

> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I've seen the recent discussions documenting problems with lm.
> 
> I have encountered the following problem.  I use WinXP Pro with
> service pack 1, and R 1.9.0, on a XEON 2GHz, with 1GB of RAM.
> 
> > eff.fro
>               std.dev         mean
> NSTRDSP  7.403749e-01 1.215686e-01
> CPFGEP   9.056763e+00 1.815686e+00
> WSWOLF   4.703588e+05 1.112832e+05
> NPILGRIM 1.017640e+06 2.134335e+05
> WSNMILE  1.367312e+07 1.892021e+06
> WSHIDESL 1.830811e+07 1.892021e+06
> > reg <- lm(log(mean) ~ log(std.dev), data=eff.fro)
> Error in model.matrix.default(mt, mf, contrasts) :
>         cannot allocate vector of length 1074790452
> > log(eff.fro$mean)
> [1] -2.1072763  0.5964635 11.6198339 12.2710808 14.4531561
> [6] 14.4531561
> > reg <- lm(log(eff.fro$mean) ~ log(eff.fro$std.dev))
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3360077 Kb
> > lef <- log(eff.fro)
> > lef
>             std.dev       mean
> NSTRDSP  -0.3005986 -2.1072763
> CPFGEP    2.2035117  0.5964635
> WSWOLF   13.0612512 11.6198339
> NPILGRIM 13.8329973 12.2710808
> WSNMILE  16.4309427 14.4531561
> WSHIDESL 16.7228546 14.4531561
> > lef <- log(eff.fro)
> > reg <- lm(lef$mean ~ lef$std.dev)
> 
> Here the my computer completely crashed.  A window poped-up and said
> memory problem at address ..., and if I want to debug.
> 
> I ran the same code one more time, and it worked but it did not work
> how I wanted (where is the slope?):
> > reg <- lm(lef$mean ~ lef$std.dev)
> > reg
> 
> Call:
> lm(formula = lef$mean ~ lef$std.dev)
> 
> Coefficients:
> (Intercept)
>       8.548
> 
> >
> > summary(reg)
> 
> Call:
> lm(formula = lef$mean ~ lef$std.dev)
> 
> Residuals:
>       1       2       3       4       5       6
> -10.655  -7.951   3.072   3.723   5.905   5.905
> 
> Coefficients:
>             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> (Intercept)    8.548      2.999    2.85   0.0358 *
> ---
> Signif. codes:  0 `***' 0.001 `**' 0.01 `*' 0.05 `.' 0.1 ` ' 1
> 
> Residual standard error: 7.346 on 5 degrees of freedom
> 
> I ran again:
> 
>   reg <- lm(log(mean) ~ log(std.dev), data=eff.fro)
> 
> and I get the pop-up:
> The instruction at "0x6b4c45a5" referenced memory at "0x0032374a".
> The memory could not be "read".  Click OK to terminate the program.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?  Thank you,
> Adrian
> 
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