[BioC] Re: [R] Configuration of memory usage

[Peter Dalgaard]

"R.G.W. Verhaak" <r.verhaak at erasmusmc.nl> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I had the same opportunity and ran into the same problem. The error
> occurred when trying to read >25 CEL-files with the ReadAffy-package and
> happened in R1.9 as well as R2.0. The problem seemed to be due to an error
> in the Tcl/Tk package and might relate to the installation of Tcl/Tk on
> our Irix machine. We did not completely tracked it down, as we than
> discovered that we were using Bioconductor 1.4 (which actually worked on a
> second Irix machine with R1.9).  Upgrading this to version 1.5 solved all
> our problems.
> Bottomline: make sure you use R2.0, Bioconductor 1.5 and install the most
> recent packages available.

It's not very likely to be the same issue as someone expecting to get
a 64bit address space with a 32bit version of R! And please trim the
list of recipients to those who might be interested (hint: r-help
readers would probably join the bioconductor list if they were
interested in BioC, Cel files, and Affy).

        -pd


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