[R] Exception while using NeweyWest function with doMC

[Jay Emerson]

Simon,

Though we're please to see another use of bigmemory, it really isn't
clear that it is gaining you
anything in your example; anything like as.big.matrix(matrix(...))
still consumes full RAM for both
the inner matrix() and the new big.matrix -- is the filebacking really
necessary.  It also doesn't
appear that you are making use of shared memory, so I'm unsure what
the gains are.  However,
I don't have any particular insight as to the subsequent problem with
NeweyWest (which doesn't
seem to be using the big.matrix objects).

Jay

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:37:55 +0200
From: Simon Zehnder <simon.zehnder at googlemail.com>
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Subject: [R] Exception while using NeweyWest function with doMC
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Dear R users,

I am using R right now for a simulation of a model that needs a lot of
memory. Therefore I use the *bigmemory* package and - to make it faster -
the *doMC* package. See my code posted on http://pastebin.com/dFRGdNrG

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John W. Emerson (Jay)
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
Yale University
http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay