[R] Error in vector("integer", length) : vector size cannot be NA

[jim holtman]

Try using 'sqldf' to get your result

sqldf("select alpha_id, beta_id, count(*) from gc group by alpha_id, beta_id")


You might also try 'data.table'

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:12 PM, mathijsdevaan <mathijsdevaan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have uploaded a csv file that looks like this:
>
>> gc
>         alpha_id     beta_id
> 1       142053       1
> 2         9454       1
> 3       295618       2
> 4        42691       2
> 5       389224       3
> 6         9455       3
>
> The alpha_id contains 310660 unique values and the beta_id contains 17431
> unique values. The number of rows adds up to more than 1.3 million. Now I
> want to convert this list of observations into a matrix with alpha_id in the
> first row and beta_id in the first column (or vice versa) and a count in the
> cells. So this would be an option M = as.matrix( table(gc) ). However, I
> keep getting this error message:
>
> Error in vector("integer", length) : vector size cannot be NA
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In pd * (as.integer(cat) - 1L) : NAs produced by integer overflow
> 2: In pd * nl : NAs produced by integer overflow
>
> There is no missing data in my file, so I don't know what's wrong. Can you
> please help me? Thanks!
>
> Mathijs
>
>
>
>
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Jim Holtman
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