On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, jake wilson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to "glm" a formula - something that's not caused problems in
> the past. I've used formulas of the form
>
> formula( "dependant-variable~independant-variables" )
>
> where the independant variable string is of the form:
>
> "indvar1+indvar2+...+indvarN"
Why the quotes?: I think that is your problem.
> Now, however, our independant variable strings are quite long (hundreds of
> variables) - R dies with an "input buffer overflow" error.
It is normal to use (y ~ ., data=mydata) to avoid such formulae.
> I've tried writing out the code to files and sourcing them, as well as
> building the strings incrementally in R, but these have not worked
> either. I have come to believe there is a maximum length for char
> strings - some sort of fundamental limitation. Is there such a
> max-length and, if so, is there a way I can work with long strings of
> the sort referenced above?
The limit is 2^31 -1, not relevant here.
Your message is coming from the parser, and suggests that it is trying to
parse a piece of text longer than MAXELTSIZE bytes. The latter depends on
the platform (unstated: do see the posting guide) and is often 8196 bytes.
So there is a limit on the length of quoted strings which can be input.
However, what is wrong with say
tmp <- paste(paste("indvar", 1:1000, sep=""), collapse="+")
tmp <- paste("y ~", tmp)
form <- eval(parse(text=tmp))
?
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