[R] lme: cannot allocate vector

LEWIN_KOH_NICHOLAS_JOHN@lilly.com
Mon, 26 May 2003 10:01:55 -0000

Hi,
I am trying to fit a linear mixed effects model (lme) with a variance
covariance matrix that has 148248^2 entries. I get the error message:
error: cannot allocate vector of size 2243241 kb

However, I am running this on a sun sparc (solaris 2.8) with 20GB of ram,
using R 1.7
Is this a hard limit I am reaching or does this have to do with how sun
segments memory?

I can probably rewrite the model to be a bit more sensible with how
resources are used,
but I thought i could brute force it since we have the power.

Thanks
Nicholas
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