On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> Running R 2.4.0 under Debian Linux, I am getting a memory error trying to
> read a very large file:
>
>> library(foreign)
>> oldgrades.df <- read.spss('Individual grades with AI (Nov 7
>> 2006).sav',to.data.frame=TRUE)
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 10826 Kb
Your file on disk seems to be about 300Mb, and it might well be larger in
R, so it's probably too big for 32-bit R.
However, you could try to.data.frame=FALSE in the read.spss() call. Based
on memory profiling of the fairly similar read.dta() function I would
guess that as.data.frame.list() might well be the culprit.
-thomas
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