[BioC] Oligo error on OS X Leopard

[Daniel Brewer]

Just trying out the oligo package on some Human Exon 1.0 ST microarrays
and I get an error while doing a read.celfiles.  I am running OS X
Leopard on a macpro with 10GB memory.

> yoda <- read.celfiles(list.celfiles("CEL",full.names=T))
Platform design info loaded.
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)25_ExH_PRC125.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)26_ExH_PRC126.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)27_ExH_PRC127.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)28_ExH_PRC128.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)29_ExH_PRC129.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)30_ExH_PRC130.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)31_ExH_NP1.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)32_ExH_NP2.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)33_ExH_NP3.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)34_ExH_NP4.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)35_ExH_NP5.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)36_ExH_NP6.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)37_ExH_NP7.CEL
Reading in : CEL/1208_CoC(3)38_ExH_ST1.CEL
R(2640) malloc: *** mmap(size=734007296) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
R(2640) malloc: *** mmap(size=734007296) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 700.0 Mb


Any ideas whats going on?

Dan

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Institute of Cancer Research
Molecular Carcinogenesis
Email: daniel.brewer at icr.ac.uk
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