[BioC] GEOquery - was queryGEO fails on GDS files (GEO Datasets)

[Peter]

Sean Davis wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> I have recently uploaded a new package to bioconductor called GEOquery.

Very recently!  I was scouring the net for something like this before 
Christmas, but to no avail.

I'm particularly interested in your function GDS2eSet for turning a GDS 
file into a standard BioConductor exprSet object.

I managed to cobble together something similar using a combination of 
BioPython's GEO parser and rpy (R from Python) as an experiment over 
Christmas...

I'm going to have a closer look at if/how you expose the subsample 
information in the exprSet phenoData.

 > It is available as a development package
> (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/1.8/html/GEOquery.html), but it
> doesn't depend on much, so should work with recent R and bioconductor
> releases.  It is capable of downloading and parsing GDS, GSM, GPL, and GSE.
> (GSE download and parsing seems to be broken on windows, at least for some
> GSEs--working on that).  After installing, you could do:
> 
>>library(GEOquery)

I see there is a source bundle online (file GEOquery_1.5.1.tar.gz) but 
as yet no Windows binary.  Is this something you could provide? 
Alternatively, how would I compile this myself?  I do have MSVC 6.0

In the meantime, I'll try and have a go at home on my linux box...

Thanks Sean,

Peter