R help - Sep 2004 - nlme: cannot allocate vector of size 126064 Kb

I have around 4000 observations of a time series. I am trying to fit a 
regression with ARMA error structure using gls from the package nlme.

I have encountered the error: cannot allocate vector of size 126064 Kb

I know this has come up many times before and I will check out the 
suggestions in the mail archive. I was wondering though if there is an 
alternative package that will fit such a model? I did a quick help.search 
on ARIMA and ARMA but only found arma and arma0.

David Scott

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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, David Scott wrote:
> 
> I have around 4000 observations of a time series. I am trying to fit a 
> regression with ARMA error structure using gls from the package nlme.
> 
> I have encountered the error: cannot allocate vector of size 126064 Kb
> 
> I know this has come up many times before and I will check out the 
> suggestions in the mail archive. I was wondering though if there is an 
> alternative package that will fit such a model? I did a quick help.search 
> on ARIMA and ARMA but only found arma and arma0.
Both will `fit a regression with ARMA error structure', recursively rather 
then via computing a large matrix.

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