Dear Uwe, Sorry for responding so late and thank you for your answer. I solved my problem by using another software.
However my OS runs on Windows, with 3.24 GB RAM and my R version is the 2.9 version (but it was the same with 2.8). So if I understand well, it all has to do with RAM. Best 2009/5/6 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > > and tell us a bit about your machine, OS, R version, the am,ount of RAM > used by your workspace. > > > Pseudo Phobic wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I have a .dta database which is about 400 MB. I cannot open it though I >> have >> no problem to import smaller ones (80 MB or even 174 MB). >> >> I tried to modify some options with --max-mem-size=2047M >> --max-vsize=2047M. >> But it does not seem to be enough. >> >> I do not know the exact meaning of these options : vsize seems to be made >> for vectors. >> > > See ?Memory on memory handling in R. > > > > I have got Monte Carlo simulations running in another R window. Can MCMC >> simulations take enough memory so as to prevent me from opening this >> database ? >> > > > Amount of RAM used by the MCMC simulations? If no (not even virtual) RAM is > left: of course they can prevent. > > Uwe Ligges > > > > Thank you very much for any help. >> >> Best Regards >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
