2^31-1 bytes can be written in a single writeBin() call

[mtrussart]

Hi,

Im having problems saving a large file that contains several fcs concatenated, and I get this error:
Error in writeBin(as(t(exprs(x)), what), con, size = types[what, "bitwidth"], :
only 2^31-1 bytes can be written in a single writeBin() call

I have done that using the Catalyst package function normCytof, but they said it's related to flowCore function
normCytof(x=ff, y="dvs", k=80, out_path = paste(wd,"All_normCatalyst_debarcoded_data/",sep=""), remove_beads = TRUE).

Could you please help me to be able to save it for big sizes?

Thanks so much

[mikejiang]

Thanks for reporting it. @jacobpwagner and I will be adding support for it.

[jacobpwagner]

@mtrussart, would you please see if commit 1f271b2 fixes the problem?

[SamGG]

Hi,
Does the 2^31 limit impacts also the ncdfFlow object?
For that large FCS, even if there is a unique FCS, will it more efficient to use ncdfFlow?
Best.

[mikejiang]

No, It was base::writeBin issue, ncdfFlow doesn't have this limitation.