[R] error to run this package

[Fox, John]

Dear John and Anima,

I didn't reply earlier because other people got to it before I did and because, given the lack of information in the original post, there wasn't anything to add.

The car package shouldn't require anything near 2.5 Gb to load. Here's what I get under Windows 10 with R 3.4.2:

> memory.size()
[1] 62.08
> library(car)
> memory.size()
[1] 166.09

The units are MB (the ?memory.size help page says "Mb" but I believe that's usually for "megabits" and that it isn't what's intended).

Some more information, as has been suggested by other posters, might help.

Best,
 John

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John Fox, Professor Emeritus
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox



> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of John Kane
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:46 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org; Anima Pramanik <apramanik17 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] error to run this package
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> Since we don't know what you were doing when this happened it is a bit
> difficult to guess.
> Please supply a minimal set of code that demonstrates what you were doing
> that gives this error.
> The output of sessionInfo() would also be useful.
> Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-
> great-r-reproducible-example
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> Reproducibility · Advanced R.for some idea of the type of information that
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> The simplist solution might be to make sure that you have enough memory
> available since the error says, "cannot allocate memory block of size 2.5 Gb".
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>     On Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 9:07:04 AM EDT, Anima Pramanik
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>  Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘car’ in get(Info[i, 1], envir
> = env):
>  cannot allocate memory block of size 2.5 Gb
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> please help me to get a solution of this problem
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