[BioC] loading Bioconductor - error message

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Tue Nov 15 21:06:58 CET 2005


Hi Natalie,

On 10 Nov 2005, natalie.twine at kcl.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi
>
> Apologies in advance if this is an obvious question- I couldn't find
> any helo in the archive of FAQ's. I get the following error message
> when I try to load Bioconductor into R.
>
> Thanks
> Natalie
>
>> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")
>> getBioC()
> Loading required package: utils 
> Error: require("utils") is not TRUE
> In addition: Warning message: 
> There is no package called `utils' in: library(package, char = TRUE,
> logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts,

utils is an R package that should come with R.  The error message you
are seeing is an indication that your R install may be incomplete.  If
possible, I would recommend reinstalling R and trying again.

+ seth



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