[BioC] memory error

A.J. Rossini rossini at blindglobe.net
Tue May 6 12:58:54 MEST 2003


So do you have a computer with 1 or 2 Gb memory? 

Are you running Windows or Linux?



Tapan Mehta <tapmehta at yahoo.com> writes:

> I am running some microarray analysis data and am
> using the rma function. I have to read more than 100
> files  of  10MB each as a group and use rma function
> over all of these . I am trying to read those but it
> is giving me memory allocation probem. I have
> increased the memory using the memory.limit(size=)
> however it is still giving error that it cannot
> allocate vector. Please guide me on what I can do to
> avoid this problem.
>
> Following is the error
>
>  Data<-ReadAffy()
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 174400 Kb
> In addition: Warning message: 
> Reached total allocation of 255Mb: see
> help(memory.size) 
>> memory.limit(size=180000)
> NULL
>> Data<-ReadAffy()
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 174400 Kb
>> 
>
>
> Please guide me
>
> Regards,
>
> Tapan Mehta
>
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