[BioC] problem loading affycoretools

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at med.umich.edu
Thu Aug 10 20:02:52 CEST 2006


Hi Jenny,

Jenny Drnevich wrote:
> Hi Jim & all,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting affycoretools to work. I apparently had 
> downloaded & installed affycoretools before, but had never used it. When I 
> tried to load it today, I got an error message saying I was missing a 
> dependent package, GOstats. So I used biocLite() to download & install 
> GOstats & it's dependencies. Then when I tried to load affycoretools, I 
> crashed my Rgui. I restarted the Rgui a few times in different ways, and 
> each time I tried to load affycoretools, it crashed the Rgui. So then I 
> went and deleted R_HOME/library/affycoretools and tried using biocLite() to 
> get it again. This time it didn't crash, but it gave a warning message 
> about it not containing a vignette (see below for output & sessionInfo). I 
> checked on bioconductor.org, and there is a vignette for affycoretools. I 
> haven't tried any of the functions yet, but I'm worried that something's 
> amiss. Any suggestions on what to check or reload?

Hmmm. That's odd. I just checked the package build, and everything looks 
OK for the windows build. I'm wondering if it is OK to just delete a 
package like that - in the past there wasn't that much involved with the 
installation/removal of packages, but these days there are more things 
going on 'under the hood', so that might be a problem.

You might try remove.packages("affycoretools") and then biocLite() 
again. No idea why the package might be crashing R. In my experience, 
that almost always happens with a package that contains C code rather 
than something simple like affycoretools, which is R code only.

Anyway, I would try removing and re-installing again. The error you are 
getting shouldn't be a problem - it is just complaining because the 
package is trying to add an entry to the vignettes menu item when it 
doesn't think there is one (BTW, is there a vignette in 
R_HOME/library/affycoretools/doc?).


> 
> Thanks,
> Jenny
> 
> P.S. It was great to finally meet many of you at the BioC2006 conference!

It was nice to meet you as well!

Best,

Jim


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> Loading required package: affy
> Loading required package: Biobase
> Loading required package: tools
> 
> Welcome to Bioconductor
> 
> 
>      Vignettes contain introductory material.
> 
>      To view, simply type 'openVignette()' or start with 'help(Biobase)'.
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> 
> Loading required package: affyio
> Loading required package: affydata
> Loading required package: Biobase
> Loading required package: gcrma
> Loading required package: matchprobes
> Loading required package: reposTools
> Loading required package: simpleaffy
> Loading required package: genefilter
> Loading required package: survival
> Loading required package: splines
> Welcome to 'affyQCReport' V 1.6-1
> Further information available at: www.bifix.org
>        mailto: craig.parman at bifix.org
> Loading required package: ade4
> Loading required package: scatterplot3d
> 
>  > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>  > biocLite("affycoretools")
> 
> Running getBioC version 0.1.6 with R version 2.3.1
> Running biocinstall version 1.8.4 with R version 2.3.1
> Your version of R requires version 1.8 of Bioconductor.
> trying URL 
> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/bin/windows/contrib/2.3/affycoretools_1.4.0.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 10626563 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 10377Kb
> 
> package 'affycoretools' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> The downloaded packages are in
>          C:\Documents and Settings\drnevich\Local 
> Settings\Temp\RtmpfRnlqb\downloaded_packages
> updating HTML package descriptions
> 
>  > library(affycoretools)
> 
> Loading required package: GOstats
> Loading required package: graph
> Loading required package: Ruuid
> Loading required package: GO
> Loading required package: annotate
> Loading required package: RBGL
> Loading required package: xtable
> 
> Attaching package: 'xtable'
> 
> 
>          The following object(s) are masked from package:graph :
> 
>           label
> 
> Loading required package: multtest
> Loading required package: Category
> Loading required package: KEGG
> Loading required package: hgu95av2
> Warning message:
> affycoretools contains no vignette, nothing is added to the menu bar in: 
> addVigs2WinMenu("affycoretools")
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "splines"   "tools"     "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
> [7] "utils"     "datasets"  "base"
> 
> other attached packages:
> affycoretools       GOstats      Category      hgu95av2          KEGG
>        "1.4.0"       "1.6.0"       "1.4.1"      "1.12.0"      "1.12.0"
>       multtest        xtable          RBGL      annotate            GO
>       "1.10.2"       "1.3-2"       "1.8.1"      "1.10.0"      "1.12.0"
>          graph         Ruuid         made4 scatterplot3d          ade4
>       "1.10.4"      "1.10.0"       "1.6.0"      "0.3-24"       "1.4-1"
>   affyQCReport    simpleaffy    genefilter      survival    reposTools
>       "1.10.0"       "2.6.0"      "1.10.1"        "2.26"      "1.10.0"
>        affyPLM         gcrma   matchprobes      affydata          affy
>        "1.8.0"       "2.4.1"       "1.4.0"       "1.8.0"      "1.10.0"
>         affyio       Biobase         limma       RWinEdt
>        "1.0.0"      "1.10.0"       "2.7.2"       "1.7-4"
>  >
> 
> 
> Jenny Drnevich, Ph.D.
> 
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