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Full_Name: Colin A. Smith Version: 1.8.0 OS: Mac OS X 10.2.6 Submission from: (NULL) (216.102.90.18) Both Biobase and my package annaffy use S4 classes to define methods for "[". Both packages use the save image method of installation. (See annaffy 1.0.3 in BioC CVS.) Depending on how both packages are loaded, the Biobase definitions seem to be getting masked out: >

Full_Name: Colin A. Smith Version: 1.8.0 OS: Mac OS X 10.2.6 Submission from: (NULL) (128.102.184.81) annaffy 1.0.1 (in BioC CVS) fails to load. annaffy 1.0 (on the BioC web site) has the same problem. It looks like the load is failing because of a bug in completeSubclasses() in r-devel. It calls setIs() and doesn't specify an environment via the "where" argument. setIs()

A package that I develop (xcms) sometimes needs to read and process vectors several hundreds of megabytes in size. (They only represent parts of a large data sets which can approach nearly 100GB.) Unfortunately, R sometimes hits the 2GB memory limit of Win32. To help cut the memory footprint in half, I'm implementing a "float" class as a subclass of "raw". Because