[R] running out of memory

[Uwe Ligges]

Stephen Choularton wrote:

> Hi
>  
> I am trying to do a large glm and running into this message.  
>  
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3725426 Kb
> In addition: Warning message: 
> Reached total allocation of 494Mb: see help(memory.size)
>  
> Am I simply out of memory (I only  have .5 gig)?
>  
> Is there something I can do?

You have to rethink whether the analyses you are doing is sensible this 
way, or whether you can respecify things. R claims to need almost 4Gb(!) 
for the next memory allocation step, so you will get in trouble even on 
huge machines....

  Uwe Ligges


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