[BioC] Memory issues with EBImage

[Frank [guest]]

Hello,

I have a problem using big images (21Mpixel) with the EBImage package. I get an error message stating "cannot allocate vector of size 481.3 Mb". Is there a way to work around this problem? I tried to use the 64-bit version of R, but the package seems not to support that...

Thanks for any suggestion!

 -- output of sessionInfo(): 

R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                           
[5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252    

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

other attached packages:
[1] EBImage_3.10.0 abind_1.4-0   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.14.1

--
Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org.