[BioC] creating platformdesign affy_250k nsp

[Roel Verhaak]

Dear List,

In order to use the oligo library for analysis of Affymetrix snparrays, 
I have tried to create a PlatformDesign using the makePlatformDesign 
package. I have been doing this on a 64-bit Linux machine, with 4Gb RAM, 
using R2.4a and BioC 1.9. After three days of running, I have stopped 
the process; memory use had increased to 5Gb so it was swapping and 
disturbing other processes. It has been displaying 'Creating 
environment...' since it started.

My question is: does this process really takes this long or did it 
crash, and do I have more chance on success when I run this with more 
memory?

Thanks,
Roel