[BioC] Memory issue

[James W. MacDonald]

Salil wrote:
> Hi Group,
>  
> Iam a beginner in learning R and Bioconductor.
>  
> I have a basic question. 
> How can I increase the memory limit.
>  
> When I type the command:
>  
> abatch <- ReadAffy(filenames = myfilenames , phenoData = mypheno)
>  
> It throws me this error:
>  
> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 625759 Kb
> In addition: Warning message: 
> Reached total allocation of 511Mb

Well, if you only have 512Mb RAM, you can overcome it by buying more. If 
you have more than that, you need to set your command line option 
--max-mem-size= to whatever amount of RAM you have. If you are on 
Windows, you need to set this in the Target field of your R shortcut.

Jim


>  
>  
> How can I overcome this?
>  
> Thanks
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