[R] Vector Size Error Message

[jim holtman]

What operating system are you running on?  Do you know if you have run
out of physical memory?  If on Windows, what do you have
'--max-mem-size' set to on the command line invoking the RGUI?

On 9/11/07, Sasse, Mark <Mark.Sasse at citizensbank.com> wrote:
> I have been using R off an on for approximately 3 months.  As such, I am
> not very knowledgeable about coding in R.  Currently I am running into
> the following problem.  I'm using scan to make data available in R.  The
> data I'm loading consists of over 400,000 records with 5 data fields.
> After running the following statement:
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> mod1<-glm(DefMigFlag~MaxFICO, family=binomial(link="logit"))
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> R returns the following error message:
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> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 3.3 Mb
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> Can anyone tell me how what I need to do to enable R to execute my glm
> statement?
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> Thanks very much!
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> Mark Sasse
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> Mark.sasse at citizensbank.com
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Jim Holtman
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?