Q: summary() function causing a fatal error in RStudio? I am trying to run a simple summary() of a logisitic glm and repeatedly get a fatal error in RStudio. I was able to run this same code flawlessly yesterday and beginning yesterday evening I kept getting the fatal error bomb.
The glm was constructed on roughly 2.6 million rows with 100+ variables. Once the glm is constructed, the R environment is consuming 21.8GB of my 64GB of RAM.
I have tried updating all of my packages that are loaded in the environment when the error occurs but I'm not sure that is even necessary since the error occurs on such a basic R function. Below is the session info.
# R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18)
# Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
# Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

# locale:
# [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
# [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
# [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

# attached base packages:
# 1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

# loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
# [1] tools_3.2.1

UPDATE: I was away from my workstation for roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes and the summary() function now works without crashing RStudio. Now the question becomes: why does this sort of thing happen in the first place?
