[BioC] Wow, what have I done

[Loren Engrav]

Thank you so much for the prompt help

Having been "scolded" for this before I now use sessionInfo which returned

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.6.0 Patched (2007-11-09 r43408)
powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
base     

other attached packages:
[1] affy_1.16.0          preprocessCore_1.0.0 affyio_1.6.1
Biobase_1.16.1


> From: Benilton Carvalho <bcarvalh at jhsph.edu>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:06:07 -0500
> To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: "bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch" <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Wow, what have I done
> 
> I'd first make sure that you have the latest version (of R and the
> packages) installed...
> b
> 
> On Dec 7, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 
>> So I enter
>> 
>>> GibranGlue70 <- ReadAffy() # to read in 70 .cel files
>> 
>> And I get this, all in bright red
>> 
>> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 723.6 Mb
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=758743040) failed
>> (error
>> code=3)
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to
>> debug
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=758743040) failed
>> (error
>> code=3)
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to
>> debug
>> 
>> I have 2.5 gb DDR SDRAM in the dual G5 Mac
>> 
>> Is the only answer, buy more RAM?
>> 
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