[BioC] combineAffyBatch problem

[Wolfgang Huber]

Dear Flora,

 > So BTW, how can I run combine function at background on a
 > SGI machine?

please read the documentation. This is all described for example in the 
Introduction to R "R-intro.pdf". Lots of people have spent lots of time 
writing this documentation, but, to paraphrase someone else, they can't 
read it for you.

Bw
  Wolfgang


Flora Fan wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> Thank you for the reply. Actually I tried one more time, and it did
> finished. I have 59 affy chips and a very big memory, it took a few hours
> to finish. Previously, my connection got reset before I finish my
> calculations. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Flora
> 
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Flora,
>>
>>"never" obviously can't be true, since to say that you would have to
>>wait for an infinitely long time. So how long did you actually wait? Did
>>you notice that your machine started swapping? How much memory do you
>>have and how big are your AffyBatches?
>>
>>   Bw
>>   Wolfgang
>>
>>
>>Flora Fan wrote:
>>
>>>Dear Robert, Wolfgang and Bioconductor people,
>>>
>>>I tried to use the combineAffyBatch function, by typing
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>new<-combineAffyBatch(list(U133Adata, U133plus2data), c("hgu133aprobe",
>>>
>>>hgu133plusprobe"), newcdf="comb", verbose=TRUE)
>>>
>>>then it gave me:
>>>
>>>package:hgu133acdf hgu133acdf
>>>package:hgu133plus2cdf hgu133plus2cdf
>>>24828 unique probes in common
>>>
>>>But after that the prompt never shows up, what could go wrong?
>>>Any suggestion would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Flora
>>>
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>>
>>--
>>Best regards
>>   Wolfgang
>>
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Best regards
   Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Huber
European Bioinformatics Institute
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Cambridge CB10 1SD
England
Phone: +44 1223 494642
Fax:   +44 1223 494486
Http:  www.ebi.ac.uk/huber