Running out of memory . . .

[Stephen Ban <ban@zoology.ubc.ca>]

I'm relatively new to S-PLUS, and I'm having a problem with memory
allocation, it seems.

The data set is fairly large (1.7 million records), and I'm trying to run
a glm on the data set. The data set loads ok, but the glm function bails
with the following error message: 
Problem in
model.matrix.default(Terms, m, contrasts..: Unable to obtain requested
dynamic memory

I have object.size set to 5e+010, and memory set to 5e+012. I'm
running S-PLUS 6.1 on a Pentium 4, 2.0GHZ, with 1GB of RAM on Windows
2000.

(Oddly enough, SPSS 10.0 runs the regression on the same data set just
fine)

Thanks,
Stephen