From knoblauch at lyon.inserm.fr  Wed Oct  5 17:17:39 2005
From: knoblauch at lyon.inserm.fr (Ken Knoblauch)
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:17:39 -0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd]  R crashes for large formulas in lm() (PR#8180)
Message-ID: <50191.194.57.165.22.1128511059.squirrel@webmail.lyon.inserm.fr>

Have you considered that 8 variables will give you
sum(choose(8,1:8))
[1] 255
terms.
That's a suspicious number.  Have you checked whether there is a limit in
the code?

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Full_Name: Hallgeir Grinde
Version: 2.1.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (144.127.1.1)


While using lm(y~(x*z*c*...*v)^2) R crashes/closes if the numbers of
variables
are at least 8.


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[Rd] R crashes for large formulas in lm() (PR#8180)
Ken Knoblauch