[BioC] solicitation for Affy bovine cdf environment

[Anjanette Watson]

All,
Has anyone already created the cdf environment for Affy's bovine chip? I 
only see a single thread in the archives regarding this the subject, it 
was sent on 02/10/05 and indicated that a version might be put up the 
next day. I am currently unable to find the package, have written to the 
author directly but the email bounced. Could someone please point me in 
the right direction if the package does exist?--

*From:* James W. MacDonald (/jmacdon at landfield.com/ 
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Margaret Gardiner-Garden wrote:
/> Hi, /
/> /
/> I have been trying to load the cdf environment for the new bovine 
Affy chips /
/> which is not available on the Bioconductor site as yet. I have tried /
/> reading the vignettes and the mailing list but unfortunately still 
can't /
/> work out where I am going wrong. /
/> /
/> I am using R Version 2.0.1 with developmental version of Bioconductor 
on a /
/> Windows XP machine. I downloaded the file bovine_libraryfile.zip from 
Affy /
/> site and put the file bovine.cdf in the same location as the .RData 
file. /
/> /
/> Then in makecdfenv library I did following command..... /
/> make.cdf.package("bovine.cdf") /
/> This seemed to work OK. Says Creating package in C:/Documents and /
/> Settings/margar/Desktop/Matthew/bovinecdf /
/> [1] "bovinecdf" /

At this point you need to install the cdfenv. Unfortunately, this is a
bit more difficult to do than simply zipping things up and using the
menu. You have three choices here:

1.) Use make.cdf.env, which will make an environment that you can use
now, but will only exist in your current workspace. You can save the
workspace and use it again, but it isn't portable like a normal package
where anytime you open R, you can load it.

2.) Get the tools to make packages on windows
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Can-I-install-packages-into-libraries-in-this-version_003f 


This is moderately tricky, but if you follow all the (semi-terse)
instructions _exactly_, you should be OK.

3.) Wait until tomorrow when I can build the env for you. I would
already have it on the BioC site, but I was under the impression that it
was the new binary format, and we don't yet have the ability to build
envs with the binary .cdf files.

Jim


-- 
Anjanette Watson PhD
University of Vermont Bioinformatics Core
120A Marsh Life Science
Burlington, VT 05405
email Anjanette.Watson at uvm.edu
phone 802-656-8612


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