[BioC] MOE430 A and B - bug?

[Jose Duarte]

It did the trick for me. I installed the dev version of annaffy which
also required the latest annotate. After upgrading both everything
worked fine.

Thanks for all your help

Jose

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 17:25, Aedin wrote:
> Thanks,
> I tried this, but the dev version of annaffy requires utils. So a half one
> version, half the next doesn't work. So I might just download all the dev
> version.
> Aedin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Gentry [mailto:jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu]
> Sent: 16 March 2004 17:23
> To: Jose Duarte
> Cc: Aedin; bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [BioC] MOE430 A and B - bug?
> 
> 
> > This is when using version 1.5.0 of the moe430a metadata package. In a
> > different machine with version 1.4.0 this works alright. annaffy version
> > is 1.0.3 in both.
> 
> The problem appears to be that there was a difference between the 1.4.x
> series of metadata packages and the 1.5.x series which breaks
> annaffy-release.
> 
> Going back to an earlier message of mine about how we just recently split
> the release/devel metadata packages, this was exactly the sort of problem
> that caused that -> as our metadata packages change on a release cycle
> that isn't the same as our software, if we are only offering one version
> of the metadata, it might cause problems with previously released
> software.
> 
> The problem with the split/rollback a few days ago was that we had already
> been offering the 1.5.0 packages for quite some time and did not want roll
> back further to the 1.4.x series of packages.
> 
> One solution, if it is feasible for your needs, is to use the devel
> versions of the packages (although in many cases this will require you to
> be using R-1.9.0, currently in alpha stage -> although I believe that
> annaffy does not have this restriction).  In the meantime, I will look
> into the possibility of also providing the 1.4.x data packages.
> 
> Thanks
> -J