[R] bootstap and lme4

FabbroThomas thomas.fabbro at unifr.ch
Mon May 9 14:54:02 CEST 2005


Hi,

I am trying to get bootstrap confidence intervals on  variance 
components and related statistics. To calculate the variance components 
I use the package lme4.

 > off.fun <- function(data, i){
   d <- data[i,]
   lme1<- lmer(y ~ trt + (trt-1|group), d)
   VarCorr(lme1)@reSumry$group[2,1] #just as an example
}
 > off.boot <- boot(data=data.sim, statistic=off.fun, R=100)

If I choose small values of R (<10) then I get very reasonable results 
but for large R I get the following error massage:


      *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=1069056) failed (error code=3)
      *** malloc[682]: error: Can't allocate region
      Error in .local(x, ...) : Calloc could not allocate (48 of 8) 
memory


Can anyone tell me why I get this error massage and  what I can do to 
avoid this problem?

Thank you very much for your help!

Thomas



I am working with:
R 2.1.0
boot 1.2-22
lme4 0.95-6
Matrix 0.95-7
lattice 0.11-6
latticeExtra 0.1-1

On Mac OS X 10.3.9




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