[R] running out of memory

Thomas Schönhoff tom_hoary at web.de
Thu Feb 17 09:14:30 CET 2005


Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2005 20:48 schrieb Stephen Choularton:
> 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?

This question has been answered a hundred times on this list. The best 
idea is trying to search for "memory datasets" in the lists mail 
archive  . Which gives you 246 hits!
Please give some more information on what system are you using (32, 64 
bit) etc.

Regards
Thomas




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