[Bioc-devel] org.Mm.eg.db 2.5.0 appears broken

[Paul Shannon]

Indeed, I should have known better.  I apologize.

Thanks to Dan and Jim for helping me out.

 - Paul

On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:41 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> On 8/30/2011 8:56 PM, Paul Shannon wrote:
>> Here's what I see.  Not sure what it means, but it doesn't seem right!
>> 
>>   - Paul
>> 
>>> R-devel CMD install org.Mm.eg.db_2.5.0.zip
> 
> I think you have been around long enough to know that we need your sessionInfo(). In addition, we keep stressing the point about using biocLite() to get things in order to ensure that you will get the correct version. But you obviously downloaded this package by hand.
> 
> Are you running R-devel? If not, why are you trying to run a devel package on a release version of R? When I use biocLite() with R-devel, I see no such problem.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
>> Error in rawToChar(block[seq_len(ns)]) :
>>   embedded nul in string: 'PK\003\004\n\0\0\0\0\0\xe7\x80\003?\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\r\0\0\0org.Mm.eg.db/PK\003\004\024\0\002\0\b\0\xe4\x80\003?\005\x8f\\
>> xfe2\x99\001\0\0\x8b\002\0\0\030\0\0\0org.Mm.eg.db/DESCRIPTION\x85R\xdb'
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