# DADA2 repeated plugin error

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-repeated-plugin-error/34113
**Category:** Technical Support
**Created:** [April 8, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-repeated-plugin-error/34113 "2026-04-08T16:42:26Z")
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### Author: ![cherman2](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/cherman2/32/17129_2.png) [@cherman2](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/cherman2)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-repeated-plugin-error/34113/2 "2026-04-08T17:06:01Z")

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Hi @Joely_Corrales,

The sneaky reason this is failing is this line:

```auto
5: stop("attempt to make a table with >= 2^31 elements")

```

R has a limit to the amount of elements in a table and you are hitting the max.

This indicates that you have a lot of unique sequences in your data. This could pretty easily happen if you are not using amplicon sequences and instead using metagenomic shotgun sequences, where, instead of having a target region, the sequences are stochastically random. If that's the case, I'll point you to our metagenomic documents. [Whole metagenome analysis with MOSHPIT - MOSHPIT documentation](https://moshpit.qiime2.org/en/stable/)

if not, here is an individual running into the same issue with amplicon data and they reported their process: [DADA2 execution halted (Error in table: attempt to make a table with \>= 2^31 elements) - #6 by potatoo](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-execution-halted-error-in-table-attempt-to-make-a-table-with-2-31-elements/11845/6)

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