[BioC] load AnnBuilder and install XML

[James W. MacDonald]

zhihua li wrote:
> Hi netters
> 
> I've downloaded and installed AnnBuilder. When I loaded it, I was told 
> that the dependent package XML had not been installed.
> According to the manual of AnnBuilder, the XML package can be found in 
> CRAN. But I can't find a windows binary there. Instead, I went to 
> http://www.omegahat.org/RSXML/index.html and downloaded XML_0.97-0.zip 
> there. I used the menu of "install packages from local zip file" and it 
> seemed that I've installed XML sucessfully:
> package 'XML' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> updating HTML package descriptions
> 
> But then when I loaded AnnBuilder, I still got:
> 
>> library(AnnBuilder)
> 
> Loading required package: Biobase Loading required package: tools 
> Welcome to Bioconductor         Vignettes contain introductory 
> material.  To view,         simply type: openVignette()         For 
> details on reading vignettes, see
>         the openVignette help page.
> Loading required package: XML Error in library(pkg, character.only = 
> TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc) :        'XML' is not a valid 
> package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> 
> I'm using R 2.0.1 actually.
> 
> Is there something wrong with windows version of XML?

No, you just did things in an unnecessarily difficult way.

install.packages("XML")

will get you what you need.


> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
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