Re: [R] problem in merging

simple example of what I was talking about; dataframe only size 5 but result is length 44 > x1 <- data.frame(a=sample(c("A", "B"), 5, TRUE), b=1:10) > x2 <- data.frame(a=sample(c("A", "B"), 5, TRUE), b=1:10) > x1 a b 1 A 1 2 B 2 3 A 3 4 A 4 5 B 5 6 A 6 7 B 7 8 A 8 9 A 9 10 B

Re: [R] problem in merging

A little more information would be of use; e.g. str(m_accts) str(m_op) gc() # how much memory is currently being used Message indicates you may have fragmented memory and it can not find enough contigious space. Also do you have duplicates in the ID you are merging by so that you wind up with a

[R] problem in merging

Hi all, I am having this error while trying to merge about 2 dataframes m_merge = merge(m_accts,m_op, by.y="CUST_ID",by.x="FORACID",all.y=TRUE,all.x=TRUE) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 10.0 Mb Taby [[alternative HTML version deleted]]