[BioC] automatically load CDF files/ under UNIX

[Laurent Gautier]

The pages 3 and 4 of the vignette "affy: Automatic downloading of cdfenvs"
deals with the issue. Try 'openVignette()' in your R session and
spot it in the list.

Hopin' it helps,


L.




On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:30:09PM -0400, Simon Lin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running library (affy) under UNIX.
> 
> As usual, I have to put the libraries under my ~home directory called .Rlib.
> When the program trying to automatically download the CDF packages, it
> generates an error.
> 
> > data<- ReadAffy()
> > data
> Environment mgu74av2cdf is not available.
> This environment contains needed probe location information.
> We will try to download and install the mgu74av2cdf package.
> 
> Note: No specified download type, defaulting to Source
> [1] "Attempting to download mgu74av2cdf from BIOCcdf/"
> Error in download.file(fileURL, destFile, mode = "wb", quiet = TRUE, method
> = method) :
>         unsupported URL scheme
> Error in inherits(cdf.env, "try-error") : Object "cdf.env" not found
> 
> Any fix of this problem? Can I use getBioC() to get the CDFs? Write now, I
> am manually use R INSTALL for the CDFs. Any alternatives insider R?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Simon
> 
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