Re: [R] Running out of memory when importing SPSS files

2011-02-10 Thread Kenn Konstabel
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:21 PM, dobomode wrote: > I am trying to import a large dataset from SPSS into R. The SPSS file > is in .SAV format and is about 1GB in size. I use read.spss to import > the file and get an error saying that I have run out of memory. I am > on a MAC OS X 10.5 system with

Re: [R] Running out of memory when importing SPSS files

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Bivand
2009/2/19 Thomas Lumley : > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote: > >> dobomode wrote: >>> >>> Hello R-help, >>> >>> I am trying to import a large dataset from SPSS into R. The SPSS file >>> is in .SAV format and is about 1GB in size. I use read.spss to import >>> the file and get an error saying

Re: [R] Running out of memory when importing SPSS files

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote: dobomode wrote: Hello R-help, I am trying to import a large dataset from SPSS into R. The SPSS file is in .SAV format and is about 1GB in size. I use read.spss to import the file and get an error saying that I have run out of memory. I am on a MAC OS X 10

Re: [R] Running out of memory when importing SPSS files

2009-02-18 Thread dobomode
I found the culprit. I had a number of variables in the SPSS file that were a variable length string data type (255 characters). This seemed to force R into creating 255-byte variables which eventually choked my machine's memory... On Feb 18, 5:34 pm, Uwe Ligges wrote: > dobomodewrote: > > Hello

Re: [R] Running out of memory when importing SPSS files

2009-02-18 Thread Uwe Ligges
dobomode wrote: Hello R-help, I am trying to import a large dataset from SPSS into R. The SPSS file is in .SAV format and is about 1GB in size. I use read.spss to import the file and get an error saying that I have run out of memory. I am on a MAC OS X 10.5 system with 4GB of RAM. Monitoring t

[R] Running out of memory when importing SPSS files

2009-02-18 Thread dobomode
Hello R-help, I am trying to import a large dataset from SPSS into R. The SPSS file is in .SAV format and is about 1GB in size. I use read.spss to import the file and get an error saying that I have run out of memory. I am on a MAC OS X 10.5 system with 4GB of RAM. Monitoring the R process tells m