On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:20:12 -0600 Neotropical bat risk assessments <neotropical.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
NBRA> NBRA> How do people deal with R and memory issues? NBRA> I have tried using gc() to see how much memory is used at each NBRA> step. Scanned Crawley R-Book and all other R books I have NBRA> available and the FAQ on-line but no help really found. NBRA> Running WinXP Pro (32 bit) with 4 GB RAM. There is a limit on windows, read the FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#There-seems-to-be-a-limit-on-the-memory-it-uses_0021 So either you use a (64bit) Linux with enough memory or you use packages or a SQL solution that is able to deal with huge datasets. (biglm for example) Stefan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.