[BioC] Memory error wihle processing 35 Affymetrix cel files

[Seth Falcon]

Gunther Höning <gunther.hoening at ukmainz.de> writes:

> Dear list,
>
> currently I'm trying to process 35 cel-files of the Affymetrix Human U133
> Plus 2.0 chip.
>
> I load the libraries and read the chips into an affybatch.
> Background correction works well but during normalisation I always receive:
> "Cannot allocate vector of size 352848...")
>
> I am using openlinux 10.2 with 2 GB RAM.
> Does anyone know a solution to this problem ?
> Using more RAM ?

Yes.

You can also look into justRMA, this might get you going.

+ seth

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