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Re: [S] Splus error in "object.size"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ranjan Maitra)
Wed Jul 21 07:35:58 1999

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 07:31:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ranjan Maitra <maitra@math.umbc.edu>
To: "Cande V. Ananth" <ananthcv@epi.umdnj.edu>
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Try increasing the object.size to some large number.

Example: 

options(object.size=10^12)

This should work.

Thanks,
Ranjan


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Cande V. Ananth wrote:

> 
> 
>     I'm running Splus 3.4 on the UNIX (Solaris 5.7, SunOS). When I try
>     and fit a logistic regression model (my data set contains 193,000
>     observations) with 6 covariates (all binary), I get the following
>     error message:
> 
> >>  Error in model.matrix.default(Terms, X): Cannot allocate 19941904 bytes:
> >>  options("object.size") is 5000000: see options help file
> 
>     I'm running Splus on an ULTRA 5, with 512 megs RAM, and 1.5 gigs
>     swap space. (There are no other processes running that can eat up 
>     memory). What should I do to avoid this error ? Any help will be
>     much appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Cande Ananth
> UMDNJ, Dept of OB/GYN
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