[BioC] installing bioconductor

[jon butchar]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:12:39 -0400
"Altiner, Ahmet (NIH/NCI) [G]" <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")
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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
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> Isn't R 2.1.1 newer than R 1.4.0 ?
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> -Ahmet
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Hi.

I don't know if it's related, but getBioC.R now has a "groupName" specification.  After sourcing the file, you could do
"> getBioC(groupname="affy")"

As James McDonald pointed out with Lite, you should also be able to do the same with getBioC, just
"> getBioC()"

hth,

jon b