Re: [Bioc-devel] pointer and big matrix in R

2013-04-13 Thread Martin Morgan
On 04/12/2013 12:08 PM, Nicolas Servant wrote: Thank you Martin, I will have a look to the SummarizedExperiment class. I'mj not sure to really understand what you call "a reference class" ? does it mean that there is no easy way to simply creater a pointer between A and B ? Practically the answ

Re: [Bioc-devel] pointer and big matrix in R

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Morgan
On 04/12/2013 10:02 AM, Servant Nicolas wrote: Dear all, I have a S4 object (HTCexp from HITC package), composed of one big matrix, and two genomicRanges objects, A and B which describe the matrix raws and columns. I thinking about a way to decrease the memory size of this object. I also have m

Re: [Bioc-devel] pointer and big matrix in R

2013-04-12 Thread Vincent Carey
for some approaches to working with large matrices in R, please look at http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html scroll down to "Large memory and out-of-memory data" i suspect this view text should be enlarged to include rhdf5 and ncdf as additional relevant resources O

[Bioc-devel] pointer and big matrix in R

2013-04-12 Thread Servant Nicolas
Dear all, I have a S4 object (HTCexp from HITC package), composed of one big matrix, and two genomicRanges objects, A and B which describe the matrix raws and columns. I thinking about a way to decrease the memory size of this object. I also have methods to get/set the matrix and the two GRanges