R help - Aug 2012 - ""Error in table(data) : attempt to make a table with >= 2^31 elements""

Hi im new in the mailing list, i am trying to apply a loglinear model at my data
in order to seek for significant correlations and effects. i have 27 variables
kai 146 observations. I want to make a contingency table for this data set in R
and i write
table(data) but it doesn't work and appears this error message: 

Error in table(data) : attempt to make a table with >= 2^31 elements

How can i fix this? 		 	   		  
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On Aug 28, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Panagiwta Zygoura wrote:
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> Hi im new in the mailing list, i am trying to apply a loglinear  
> model at my data in order to seek for significant correlations and  
> effects. i have 27 variables kai 146 observations. I want to make a  
> contingency table for this data set in R and i write
> table(data) but it doesn't work and appears this error message:
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> Error in table(data) : attempt to make a table with >= 2^31 elements
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> How can i fix this? 		 	   		
You could try being a little less greedy in your expectations. You  
have asked for a table of all 27 variables cross-tabulated by each  
other all at once. That is a 27 dimensional table.  What sort of  
contingency table did you really want?

Perhaps:

lapply(data, table) # which should give you one-way tabulations of  
each variable.

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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA