Re: [R] multinom(nnet) analogy for biglm package?

2006-12-22 Thread Yeh, Richard C
Dear Prof. Ripley, Many thanks for your reply, especially during the holiday season! From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You seem to believe a multinomial logistic regression is a GLM: it is not. With one line, you've struck the heart of one of my problems. As a follow-up

[R] multinom(nnet) analogy for biglm package?

2006-12-21 Thread Yeh, Richard C
I would like to perform a multinomial logistic regression on a large data set, but do not know how. I've only thought of a few possibilities and write to seek advice and guidance on them or deepening or expanding my search. On smaller data sets, I have successfully loaded the data and issued

Re: [R] multinom(nnet) analogy for biglm package?

2006-12-21 Thread Yeh, Richard C
OK, well, seeing Thomas Lumley's post earlier today, I figured out the answer to #4: gc() used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb) Ncells 1115191 29.83469679 92.7 13981968 373.4 Vcells 14796791 112.9 79783730 608.8 124640525 951.0 c - rnorm(1e9) Error in rnorm(1e+09) :

Re: [R] multinom(nnet) analogy for biglm package?

2006-12-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Here is the direct way: .Machine$sizeof.pointer [1] 8 on a 64-bit system. You can also figure it out from the size of the Ncells, clearly 28 bytes in your example. You seem to believe a multinomial logistic regression is a GLM: it is not. On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Yeh, Richard C wrote: OK,