[BioC] homoPkgBuilder (AnnBuilder 1.4.2/1.4.6) exits with errors

[John Zhang]

What version of annotate do you have? The class defination is in the devel 
version of annotate.

>
>I am trying to use the homoPkgBuilder-function from the AnnBuilder-package 
but
>did not yet succeed in getting it to work.
>
>I used AnnBuilder-1.4.2 on R-1.8.1 first. The function exits with an error 
about
>the object "tempList" not being defined. As far as I can see from the 1.4.2
>code, this variable is used in the mapPS function but never defined.
>
>So I switched to R-1.9.1 and AnnBuilder-1.4.6 because the mapPS function 
looked
>like the problem got fixed. This time the function exits with
>
>Error in getClass(Class, where = topenv(parent.frame())) :
>        "homoData" is not a defined class
>
>Looking at the code I assume that the function "getHomoData" tries to return 
an
>object of a class that has not been defined in the AnnBuilder package. Do I
>have to install another developmental package to get the class definition? I
>did look at Biobase but did not find anything there.
>
>Any help would greatly appreciated.
>
>Best regards
>
>Gunnar
>
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Jianhua Zhang
Department of Biostatistics
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Boston, MA 02115-6084