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
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
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
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
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
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
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