Dear Uwe,

Sorry for responding so late and thank you for your answer. I solved my
problem by using another software.

However my OS runs on Windows, with 3.24 GB RAM and my R version is the 2.9
version (but it was the same with 2.8).

So if I understand well, it all has to do with RAM.

Best
2009/5/6 Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

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>
>
> and tell us a bit about your machine, OS, R version, the am,ount of RAM
> used by your workspace.
>
>
> Pseudo Phobic wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a .dta database which is about 400 MB. I cannot open it though I
>> have
>> no problem to import smaller ones (80 MB or even 174 MB).
>>
>> I tried to modify some options with --max-mem-size=2047M
>> --max-vsize=2047M.
>> But it does not seem to be enough.
>>
>> I do not know the exact meaning of these options : vsize seems to be made
>> for vectors.
>>
>
> See ?Memory on memory handling in R.
>
>
>
> I have got Monte Carlo simulations running in another R window. Can MCMC
>> simulations take enough memory so as to prevent me from opening this
>> database ?
>>
>
>
> Amount of RAM used by the MCMC simulations? If no (not even virtual) RAM is
> left: of course they can prevent.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>  Thank you very much for any help.
>>
>> Best Regards
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