[R] Once again: Error: cannot allocate vector of size

[Matthew Dowle]

Please re-read the posting guide e.g. you didn't provide an example data set 
or a way to generate one,  or any R version information.

"Werner W." <pensterfuzzer at yahoo.de> wrote in message 
news:646146.32238.qm at web23002.mail.ird.yahoo.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have browsed the help list and looked at the FAQ but I don't find 
> conclusive evidence if this is normal or I am doing something wrong.
> I am running a lm() on a data.frame with 27136 observations of 6 variables 
> (3 num and 3 factor).
> After a while R throws this:
>
>> lm(log(y) ~ log(a) + log(b) + c + d + e, data=reg.data , 
>> na.action=na.exclude)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 203.7 MB
>
> This is a Windows XP 32 bit machine with 4 GB in it so that theoretically, 
> R should be able to claim close to 2 GB.
> This is the gc() after the regression:
>          used (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb)  max used   (Mb)
> Ncells  272299  7.3     875833  23.4   1368491   36.6
> Vcells 4526037 34.6  116536251 889.2 145524997 1110.3
>
>> memory.size(max=T)
> [1] 1230.25
>> memory.size(max=F)
> [1] 47.89
>>
>
> Looking at memory.size, R should be easily able to allocate that space, 
> shouldn't it?
>
> Many thanks for any hints!
>
> --Werner
>
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