[R] R problem

[Mike Marchywka]

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> From: brucejoh at usc.edu
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:27:21 -0800
> Subject: [R] R problem
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> I'm using R version 2.12.0
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> I'm trying to open a stata file (.dta); but I keep getting the message:
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> Error in read.dta("c:/p4subset_biology.dta") :
> Calloc could not allocate (-603966867 of 4) memory

how big is the file? Negative numbers related to memory allocs
often mean too big- the signed int size thing overflows and becomes
negative. Boundaries are often at a few Gigs, the sign bit on a 32
bit int is bit 31.




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> What does this mean?
>
> The file should contain lots of physiological data.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> -Bruce
>
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