[BioC] installing bioconductor

[Seth Falcon]

Hi Ahmet,


On  8 Sep 2005, altinera at mail.nih.gov wrote:

> As instructed on the FAQ manual, I typed in the following to R 2.1.1
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>> source(http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R
> <http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R> )
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>> getBioC("affy","release")

Is this really what you gave to R or what you are retyping for us?

I think you want:
source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")
getBioC("affy")

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> And got back the following message
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> Running getBioC version 0.8  with R version  2.1.1 
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> Running biocinstall version 1.2  with R version  2.1.1 
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> Error in .readRDS(pfile) : cannot read workspace version 0 written
> by R 2.1.1; need R 1.4.0 or newer

This is a very strange error message, but given what you've told us
about what you entered... Well, perhaps you could try again and let us
know if you see the same error.

+ seth