Re: [R] big databases

2009-06-03 Thread Pseudo Phobic
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/

Re: [R] big databases

2009-05-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
> PLEASE do read the posting guide 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 pro

[R] big databases

2009-05-05 Thread Pseudo Phobic
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