[R] Once again: Error: cannot allocate vector of size

[Matthew Dowle]

Fantastic. You're much more likely to get a response now.  Best of luck.

"werner w" <pensterfuzzer at yahoo.de> wrote in message 
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> Thanks Matthew, you are absolutely right.
>
> I am working on Windows XP SP2 32bit with R versions 2.9.1.
>
> Here is an example:
>  d <- as.data.frame(matrix(trunc(rnorm(6*27136, 10000, 100)),ncol=6))
>  d[,4:5] <- trunc(100*runif(2*27136, 0, 1))
>  d[,6] <- trunc(1000*runif(27136, 0, 1))
>  for (i in 4:6) d[,i] <- as.factor(d[,i])
>  lm(V1 ~ log(V2) + log(V3) + V4 + V5 + V6, data=d)
>  memory.size(max=F)
>  memory.size(max=T)
>
> I managed to get it run through after setting the 3GB switch for Windows 
> and
> with a clean R session.
> I also noticed later, that after removing na.action=na.exclude more
> regressions run through.
>
> But before and after the lm() it seems there should be enough memory which
> means that lm() builds up some quite large objects during its 
> computations?
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