1) What kind of file is a .dta? 2) Do you have more RAM than R is using? Check this with ?memory.limit
3) Are you on a 64 bit OS with 64 bit R? I can tell you that starting R with --max-mem-size= may help, but you probably want to look into R interfaces with databases first. -------------------------------------- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown Road Kearneysville WV, 25430 (304) 724-4480 "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room, the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it." - Jubal Early, Firefly r-help-boun...@r-project.org wrote on 03/22/2011 10:17:13 AM: > [image removed] > > [R] memory increasing > > graziella > > to: > > r-help > > 03/22/2011 10:33 AM > > Sent by: > > r-help-boun...@r-project.org > > Dear All, > I am an Italian researcher in Economics. I work with large sample data. I > need to increase the memory in R-project in order to upload a file ".dta". > How can I do this? > > Thank you. > graziella > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/memory- > increasing-tp3396511p3396511.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.