Hello,
I am trying to read in some Stata files into R. First, read.dta claims
my Stata 7/SE is " Not a Stata version 5-7/SE .dta file",
when it clearly is. I saved the file in Stata 6 format, and then got
> read.dta("/tmp/jerfox/Stata/intallyrs_allquart_6.dta")
Error: cons memory exhausted (limit reached?)
The dataset is 87 MB, has only integers and reals, and has around 50
variables. Now, this is on a 64-bit, 16 GB machine with plenty of swap
space and free memory available. I am using the r-devel version (1.6.0),
with the aggressive Solaris compile flags in the appendix of the
Installation Guide.
The problem persists if I try to set --max-nsize to some high level as
an option on the command line when I start R.
Is R not capable of working with datasets this large? Considering that I
can store a 12GB array in this version of R, having this low limit on
data importation seems to be little strange. I admit to not
understanding what cons cells are or how they work, although I did read
help(memory).
Thanks to anyone helping develop this great program.
Jeremy
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