[BioC] Problems Reading Cel Files

[Jeff Lande]

Dear List Members,

I am trying to get started by following along with the affy textual
description manual, but I'm having early problems.  I am working with 53 Cel
files, but I have been testing by attempting to load as few as two Cel
files.  In all cases, I get a similar error message.  Here's an example:

Error: cannot allocate vector of size 83170 Kb
In addition: Warning message:
Reached total allocation of 509 Mb: see help(memory.size)

I'm a little wary of changing memory allocation without having a good idea
about what I am doing.  I am working in a Windows NT environment.  Can
someone suggest a good course of action or a good (in-depth) resource on
memory allocation within R?

Thanks.

Jeff Lande
University of Minnesota