Hi, I had the same kind of problem and fixed it with : memory.limit(size = 15000); (for 15 GO) If you have enough HD space available, this should work. Cheers, Julien. >Message: 4 >From: "Castel, David" <david.castel@roswellpark.org> >To: "'bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch'" <bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch> >Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:45:43 -0400 >Subject: [BioC] Trouble with virtual memory > >Hello, > >I am trying to use Affy Package with 25 cel files at a time (express >function), using quantiles normalization. >I get an error message each time I try to launch the calculations: >"Error: cannot allocate vector of size 80000 Kb" > >I tried to increase the memory size (I have 1 gig of RAM) as it show me only >256Megs of memory.. > >Is there something I am missing in the memory allocation limits?? > >Thank you very much. > >Regards, > >David > > >======== H ========= > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential >information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or >agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended >recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, >distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have >received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by >e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Bioconductor mailing list >Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > >End of Bioconductor Digest > // Julien Sylvestre // 3čme année d'ingénieur INA P-G // DEA Biomathématiques (Paris VII - St Antoine) // ENS 46, rue d'ulm Paris // Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire - groupe Claude Jacq // 01 4432 3672