[BioC] segfault ReadAffy cause 'memory not mapped'

[Brian D. Peyser PhD]

On Thu Aug 22 2013 6:18 PM, I wrote:
> I had considered it could be a limit of the signed int indices for R
> vectors/arrays, but I thought that had changed as of R v3.0. Also, I
> thought that would give the error 'too many elements specified' rather
> than a 'memory not mapped' segfault. I've certainly allocated close to
> 64 GiB to R doing other things with these data, I'm just not sure if any
> individual vectors were that large.

I just ran:

$ R

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> temp = array(rnorm(3750*604258), c(3750, 604258))
> 

and R was allocated 30.0 GiB, and did not crash. From hgu133plus2probe
info, there are 604258 probes (_not_ probesets) on each hgu133plus2
Genechip, and I have 3750 chips. Therefore, I can generate a
3750-by-604258 array of random data without a segfault, and R shoots
right past 16 GiB allocated with no hiccups.

-Brian
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