[R] Memory issues..

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Have you done what the message said?

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Rodrigo Abt wrote:

> Hi dear R-listers, I'm trying to fit a 3-level model using lme in R. My
> sample size is about 2965 and 3 factors:
> 
> year (5 levels), ssize (4 levels), condition (2 levels).
> 
> When I issue the following command:
> 
> >
> lme(var~year*ssize*condition,random=~ssize+condition|subject,data=smp,method
> ="ML")
> 
> I got the following error:
> 
> Error in logLik.lmeStructInt(lmeSt, lmePars) :
>         Calloc could not allocate (65230 of 8) memory
> In addition: Warning message:
> Reached total allocation of 120Mb: see help(memory.size)
> 
> I'm currently using a Win2000 machine with 128Mb RAM and a 1.2 Gb processor.
> My version of R is 1.7.1.

You probably need more memory, but you could try following the advice in 
the help page pointed to.  If you increase the memory allocation R will 
continue to run, albeit slowly.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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