[BioC] installing affy devel package

[Ben Bolstad]

can you tell me what version of the affy package you are using (on
1.8.1)?

help(package=affy)

the latest version (release) 1.3.28 supports binary files.

Thanks,

Ben



On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 14:41, Isaac Mehl wrote:
> recently tried to use ReadAffy fucntion for some CEL files and received:
> 
> > Data <- ReadAffy()
> Error in read.affybatch(filenames = filenames, phenoData = phenoData,  :
>         The file /cool/delta_microarray/YZ04022501.CEL does not look
> like a CEL file
> 
> most likely because the CEL file is binary.  found an old thread for
> bioconductor which said the newest affy devel package can handle binary
> files and runs in R 1.8.1.  however when i try:
> 
> > getBioC(libName="affy", relLevel="devel")
> Running getBioC version 1.2.52....
> If you encounter problems, first make sure that
> you are running the latest version of getBioC()
> which can be found at: www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R
>  
> Please direct any concerns or questions to
> bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch.
>  
> Error in getBioC(libName = "affy", relLevel = "devel") :
>  
> You are currently running R version 1.8.1, however R version 1.9.0 is
> required.
> 
> am i doing something wrong here??  For anyone else having this problem i
> found a work around.  go to:
> http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/tools/affytools.affx
> there is a program here that will convert binary to ASCII and vise versa
> on a windows machine.
> 
> -isaac
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