Re-looping R-help. My error. Hannah, I can't tell you how much RAM your computer has, certainly not how much is free for R's use. Just that you are probably not going to be able to load a dataset that Large into a 2017 MacBook.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2020, 3:20 PM Hannah Van Impe <hannahvani...@outlook.com> wrote: > Thank you very much, > would it be possible to merge multiple smaller datasets into this one > dataset? > How much RAM would be possible for one dataset on laptop scales? > I need to work with this data for the university, so it would be best if I > could work with the whole dataset. > Thank you! > > > Op 2 nov. 2020, om 21:16 heeft Patrick (Malone Quantitative) < > mal...@malonequantitative.com> het volgende geschreven: > > > > 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
