Try this:
maxreps=1000
my.medians=rep(NA,maxreps)
for(repnum in 1:maxreps){
my.sample=sample(my.distribution,length(my.distribution)/10) #change
sampling ratio if #desired
this.rep.median=median(my.sample)
my.medians[repnum]=this.rep.median
}
#Now, you can get CI two ways
#first, IF you are willing to assume a few things, the s.d. of your median
dist is the s.e. of #your estimate, the CI follows i.e. mean(my.medians)+-
2*sd(my.medians)
#OR,(Better), just quantile the interval out. i.e.for a 95% interval
lower=quantile(my.medians,.025)
upper=quantile(my.medians,.975)

This way, you can find the maxreps that are right for your machine.
                 Ken Hutchison

2011/12/20 Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

>
>
> On 20.12.2011 06:47, Vikram Bahure wrote:
>
>> Dear R users,
>>
>> I am getting following error while using boot.ci. I have int.inc function
>> with 20000 values. I am generating CI for the sample estimate.
>>
>> *>    med<- function(x,i) median(x[i])*
>> *>    b1<- boot(int.inc,med,2)*
>> *>    ci.out<- boot.ci(b1,conf = c(0.95),type = c("bca"))*
>> *Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1.5 Gb*
>> *
>> *
>> It would be very helpful to get some insight on this.
>>
>
> Which more insight than the one that RAM available to R is not sufficient
> for such a memory intensive task?
>
> Uwe
>
>
>
>
>
>> Regards
>> Vikram
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