Here is the direct way: > .Machine$sizeof.pointer [1] 8
on a 64-bit system. You can also figure it out from the size of the Ncells, clearly 28 bytes in your example. You seem to believe a multinomial logistic regression is a GLM: it is not. On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Yeh, Richard C wrote: > OK, well, seeing Thomas Lumley's post earlier today, I figured out the > answer to #4: > >> gc() > used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) > Ncells 1115191 29.8 3469679 92.7 13981968 373.4 > Vcells 14796791 112.9 79783730 608.8 124640525 951.0 >> c <- rnorm(1e9) > Error in rnorm(1e+09) : cannot allocate vector of length 1000000000 > > I am using: > > R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-03 r39576) > > > 212-933-3305 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > suspect both copies of R were compiled as 32-bit (but I don't know how > to verify this). > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.