[Rsiena-help] Converting to Siena objects--memory overload

[Victor, Jennifer Nicoll]

Hello users and experts:

I am attempting to create a Siena object with my 3-wave matrices and it's taking an enormous amount of memory.  I have three matrices of size 555x555 and I have attempted the following command to create Siena objects for my dependent variables:
caucuses<-sienaNet(array(c(cauc109.net, cauc110.net, cauc111.net), dim=c(555, 555, 3)))

I have been running this on a virtual "supercomputer": Dell PowerEdge with Dual Intel X5650 Six Core Processors and 24 GM Memory.  The datafile is 10MB and the command has been running for 15 hours now (so far no errors).

Shall I continue to let it run?  Have I done something wrong?  I shudder to think what will happen when I try to estimate a model!

Thanks for your advice,
Jennifer Victor


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Jennifer Nicoll Victor
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Pittsburgh
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E-mail:  jnvictor at pitt.edu<mailto:jnvictor at pitt.edu>
Homepage: http://www.polisci.pitt.edu/person/jennifer-nicoll-victor

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