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." <pensterfuz...@yahoo.de> wrote in message news:646146.32238...@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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sie si > n Massenmails. > http://mail.yahoo.com > ______________________________________________ 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.