Thanks for the tips, Roger.
fyi: When I added /3GB to the boot.ini, the resulting desktop was incomplete
and locked - no chance to try starting R. Searching the web lead me to
believe that this was possibly a dead-end, so I abandoned this effort. Any
hints on getting this to work, anyone?
I am an R user trying to get around the 2Gig memory limit in Windows, so
here I am days later with a working Ubuntu, and R under Ubuntu. But - the
memory problems seem worse than ever. R code that worked under
windows fails, unable to allocate memory.
Searching around the web, it appears that
I'm trying to use stepAIC on sparse matrices, and I need some help.
The documentation for slm.fit suggests:
slm.fit and slm.wfit call slm.fit.csr to do Cholesky decomposition and then
backsolve to obtain the least squares estimated coefficients. These functions
can be
called directly if the
