[BioC] Large number of CEL files!!!

[James W. MacDonald]

Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have 200 CEL files and i want to use bioconductor to
> read these files and then do simple things like
> hist(),boxplot()! I think i will run into memory
> issues!
> Any suggestions as to how to handle this problem?

If you want to have an AffyBatch so you can use hist(), etc., you will 
need lots of RAM (probably 3 or 4 Gb). You might also need to use a *nix 
OS because windows doesn't handle memory that efficiently.

Luckily, RAM is comparatively cheap these days.

Best,

Jim


> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Hrishi
> 
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