[R] Error: protect () : protection stack overflow

[Prof Brian Ripley]

No one seems to have mentioned that the size of the protection stack can 
be set when starting R. It worked for me starting R with 
--max-ppsize=100000.  I'm not sure that will do more that postpone the 
problem, but it may help.

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Bert Gunter wrote:

> Apparently the former, as I got the same error in R2.7.1 on Windows.
>
> Matbe relevant info(?):
>
> $platform
> [1] "i386-pc-mingw32"
>
> $arch
> [1] "i386"
>
> $os
> [1] "mingw32"
>
> $system
> [1] "i386, mingw32"
>
>
> -- Bert Gunter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Bricklemyer, Ross S
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:10 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Error: protect () : protection stack overflow
>
> I am attempting to create a formula using as.formula for a PLS analysis.  I
> have used the code below successfully, but in a previous R version and with
> many fewer predictors.  Any help getting all of these predictors into one
> formula would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TC.fmla <- as.formula(paste("TC ~ ", paste(vars, collapse= "+")))
>
> As I mentioned, this code worked fine in a previous R version and with 2050
> vars, however I now have the latest version of R and 36334 predictors in
> vars.
>
> Do I simply have too many predictors for this to work, or is this an R 2.8.0
> issue?
>
> Best,
> Ross
>
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