[R] max length of a factor variable

[jim holtman]

You have provided no information as to what you mean by "my analysis
fails".  Exactly what error message are you getting, what operation
system do you have, how much memory do you have, how much are you
using for all the other objects in your address space, etc......
Information like this would help you get an answer.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Richard Mott <rmott at well.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there a maximum length for the character string representing a level of a
> factor?  I have a set of several million variables, each a factor of length
> 19. Each factor level is a character string which in some cases can be many
> thousands of characters long.  I am trying to find out why my analysis fails
> - I just wanted to rule out the possibility that the internal factor
> conversion has a problem parsing long strings.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?