Re: [Bioc-devel] ShortRead::countLines integer overflow with large fastq files

Great thanks! Thomas On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:11 AM Martin Morgan wrote: > Thanks Thomas, countLines() in ShortRead 1.37.3 and later) will return > numeric() rather than integer() and hence support large files. > > Martin > > On 02/20/2018 10:08 PM, Thomas Girke

Re: [Bioc-devel] ShortRead::countLines integer overflow with large fastq files

Thanks Thomas, countLines() in ShortRead 1.37.3 and later) will return numeric() rather than integer() and hence support large files. Martin On 02/20/2018 10:08 PM, Thomas Girke wrote: Dear Martin, countLines in ShrotRead returns the line counts as integers which appears to create problems

[Bioc-devel] ShortRead::countLines integer overflow with large fastq files

Dear Martin, countLines in ShrotRead returns the line counts as integers which appears to create problems with large FASTQ files (>536.8 Mio lines) due to R's integer limit (2^31-1). When the integer limit is reached/exceeded it seems that countLines returns negative values not reflecting the