[R] large data set issues

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Thu Sep 26 02:13:04 CEST 2002


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 clayton.springer at pharma.novartis.com wrote:

> Dear R-help,
>
> I am loading data sets of the size 509 x ~9000 integers. Which is a 10M
> file on disk. The .Rdata is 18M. When I try to use rpart I get:
>
> Error: protect(): stack overflow
>
> Naturally, the same thing happens with randomForest too.
>
> What can be done, or is this dataset really too big?
>

You could try redefining R_PPSSIZE in Defn.h and recompiling, to get a
larger pointer protection stack.

	-thomas


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