Dear Roger Bivand and Dan Putler, Currently I'm working on the spatial point data analysis using Kernel estimation (spatstat), Ripley's K function (spatstat) and space-time K function (splancs). My research is at the continental level and the region area includes Asia, Europe and Africa. The methods work on small datasets (as I have seen solutions posted in R-sig-Geo by others) and this is not my real problem. Finding a solution with such a large dataset is the key issue here.
I have a really big data set with 3345 points. The spatial region includes Asia, Europe and Africa. When I run the "Kest" function, the error said "cannot allocate vector of size 382.8 Mb". I have already enlarge the memory to the maximum and make the nlarge=3500 in "Kest". I am not sure if this is the correct way of increase nlarge, as nlarge default value is 3000. Prior to me changing nlarge the following error message was "number of data points exceeds 3000 - computing border estimate only". Below is part of the code used where the error occurs: #Ripley's K function K <- Kest(p1,nlarge=3500) #Error: cannot allocate vector of size 381.8 Mb plot(K) Can you please assist? Thanks in advance. -- Yali Si Department of Natural Resources International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation Hengelosestraat 99 P.O. Box 6 7500 AA Enschede, the Netherlands Phone : +31-53-4874439 Fax: +31-53-4874388 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo