Hello Frank,

This is a memory issue, probably coming from your R version or your
hardware. How much memory do you have? Try to install the latest version of
EBImage (version 4.0.0), which is GTK- and ImageMagick-independent and may
support the 64-bit version of R.
Cheers,

Greg

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Frank [guest] <guest@bioconductor.org>wrote:

>
> 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
>
> --
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>

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