Hi Dave, I'm working currently on Windows and I didn't get the error message. I'm getting the following output shown below. Maybe you changed something in the ffbatchbytes option?
> require(ff) > myVec = ff(1:5) > another = ff(10:14) > littleFrame = ffdf(myVec, another) > posVec = ff(c(2, 4), vmode = 'integer') > ffdfindexget(littleFrame, posVec) ffdf (all open) dim=c(2,2), dimorder=c(1,2) row.names=NULL ffdf virtual mapping PhysicalName VirtualVmode PhysicalVmode AsIs VirtualIsMatrix PhysicalIsMatrix PhysicalElementNo PhysicalFirstCol PhysicalLastCol PhysicalIsOpen myVec myVec integer integer FALSE FALSE FALSE 1 1 1 TRUE another another integer integer FALSE FALSE FALSE 2 1 1 TRUE ffdf data myVec another 1 2 11 2 4 13 > sessionInfo() R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] ff_2.2-9 bit_1.1-9 Jan -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/ffdfindexget-from-package-ff-tp4648087p4648458.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.