[BioC] Problems installing bioconductor

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Fri Jul 15 00:03:30 CEST 2005


Hi Sonia,

On 13 Jul 2005, sonia.shah at cs.ucl.ac.uk wrote:
> I tried to download Bioconductor by typing the following commands
> (I'm using R2.1.1):
>
>> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")
>> getBioC()
>
> When I type the second command I get the following error:
>
> Loading required package: utils Error: require("utils") is not TRUE
> In addition: Warning message: There is no package called 'utils' in:
> library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE,
> >warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,

The utils package is among the default set of packages that comes with
R.  If library("utils") gives you an error message, then your R
installation is not right.

How did you install R?  

+ seth



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