R help - May 2009 - big databases

Dear all,

I have a .dta database which is about 400 MB. I cannot open it though I have
no problem to import smaller ones (80 MB or even 174 MB).

I tried to modify some options with --max-mem-size=2047M --max-vsize=2047M.
But it does not seem to be enough.

I do not know the exact meaning of these options : vsize seems to be made
for vectors.

I have got Monte Carlo simulations running in another R window. Can MCMC
simulations take enough memory so as to prevent me from opening this
database ?

Thank you very much for any help.

Best Regards

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Pseudo Phobic wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a .dta database which is about 400 MB. I cannot open it though I
have
> no problem to import smaller ones (80 MB or even 174 MB).
> 
> I tried to modify some options with --max-mem-size=2047M --max-vsize=2047M.
> But it does not seem to be enough.
> 
> I do not know the exact meaning of these options : vsize seems to be made
> for vectors.
See ?Memory on memory handling in R.


> I have got Monte Carlo simulations running in another R window. Can MCMC
> simulations take enough memory so as to prevent me from opening this
> database ?

Amount of RAM used by the MCMC simulations? If no (not even virtual) RAM 
is left: of course they can prevent.

Uwe Ligges


> Thank you very much for any help.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
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