The error probably means what it says. I'm guessing "25 GB available" is on the hard drive. But the issue is the data must be held in RAM, and a file >4GB (before de-compression) is quite a lot of RAM on laptop scales.
Try taking a subset of the data in Stata before importing? Pat On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 3:09 PM Hannah Van Impe <hannahvani...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Hello > > I have a question about the error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?). > I have the R-studio version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10). > I have a MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017). I am trying to open a dataset file > ‘data_dta’ through the import dataset ‘file from stata’ button. > I already did this with other datasets, and this works fine. Now, I want to > work with a bigger dataset of 4.08 GB. When I try to open the dataset, I get > this error: vector memory exhausted (limit reached?). > What can I do about this? I still have 25 GB available on my laptop. > > Thank you very much > Hannah Van Impe > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Patrick S. Malone, Ph.D., Malone Quantitative NEW Service Models: http://malonequantitative.com He/Him/His ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
