Merge error : negative length vectors are not allowed

I tried to merge two data.frames, and they are like below:

   GVKEY YEAR coperol     delta     vega firm_related_wealth
1 001045 1992       1  38.88885 17.86943            2998.816
2 001045 1993       1  33.57905 19.19287            2286.418
3 001045 1994       1  48.54719 16.85830            3924.053
4 001045 1995       1 111.46762 38.71565            8550.903
5 001045 1996       1 218.89279 45.59413           17834.921
6 001045 1997       1 415.61461 51.45863           34279.515

AND

   GVKEY YEAR fracdirafter fracdirafterindep twfracdirafter
1 001004 1996         1.00              0.70    1.000000000
2 001004 1997         0.00              0.00    0.000000000
3 001004 1998         0.00              0.00    0.000000000
4 001004 1999         0.00              0.00    0.000000000
5 001004 2000         0.00              0.00    0.000000000
6 001004 2001         0.25              0.25    0.009645437

They both have 1,048,575 rows. My code is merge(a,b,by=c("GVKEY","YEAR")), I kept receiving error message “negative length vectors are not allowed“. I also tried the data.table way, but got error message saying that my results would exceed 2^31 rows. Apparently, the merged data will not be so big, so I am not sure how to solve this issue.

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