[R] Is my data set too large

[Aimin Yan]

I have a data set like this.
I want to do glm, but I get this error:

Error in model.matrix.default(mt, mf, contrasts) :
         cannot allocate vector of length 932889958

I am wondering if my data set is too large or I did something wrong.

Is there some limitation for data size for R?

thanks,

Aimin


 > p1982<- read.csv("p_1982_aa.csv")
 > names(p1982)
[1] "p"   "aa"  "as"  "ms"  "cur" "sc"
 > str(p1982)
'data.frame':   465979 obs. of  6 variables:
  $ p  : Factor w/ 1982 levels "154l_aa","1A0P_aa",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
  $ aa : Factor w/ 19 levels "ALA","ARG","ASN",..: 2 16 4 5 18 3 19 3 2 9 ...
  $ as : num  152.0  15.9  65.1  57.2  28.9 ...
  $ ms : num  108.8  28.3  59.2  49.9  31.8 ...
  $ cur: num  -0.1020  0.2564  0.0312 -0.0550  0.0526 ...
  $ sc : num   92.10 103.67   7.27  72.98  96.12 ...
 > attach(p1982)
 > m<-glm(sc~p+aa+as+cur,data=p1982)
Error in model.matrix.default(mt, mf, contrasts) :
         cannot allocate vector of length 932889958
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