Please note the message is about the protect stack, and not the `stack'. The message you quote did not come from a current version of R (and you have not told us what version you are using, as asked in the posting guide).
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm using step() for forward regression with 680 main effects and the > correspomding 230860 interactions. Hmm. How many data points? step() only tries 1000 steps by default. > However, the calculation is stopped with the message: > Error: protect(): stack overflow > > How can I specify the maximum size of the pointer protection stack when > running > R not from command line but in an emacs-subwindow? Ask ESS questions on the ESS list please, as the FAQ does ask you. > How can I perform these calculations when the maximum value accepted is > 100000? which is a lot larger than the default value (which depends on your unstated R version). Without a lot more information it is unclear why the protection stack is being used up. Please show us the last few lines of the output. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
