[BioC] showcase (script)

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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:31:51 -0500, "James W. MacDonald" <jmacdon at med.umich.edu> wrote:

> 
> Well, Bioconductor consists of over 150 packages at present, so I think 
> something like this could only just scratch the surface. 

Yes, I know. I meant it like giving only few basics of Bioconductor to new users. 
To show them "how things work". Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't found real introduction 
into using Bioconductor. 

>However, most 
> of the packages come with at least one vignette that is supposed to give 
> novices an example they can use to explore use of the package.

I know that there are vignettes, but you know, it's like giving someone linux/unix shell
and saying: "In case you wouldn't know what to do, there are always man and info commands."

> 
> You can also step through the code in a given vignette if you have the 
> tkWidgets package installed.
> 
> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite("tkWidgets")
> library(tkWidgets)
> library(<the package you are interested in>)
> vExplorer()
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jim
> 

Anyway, thank you very much for the response. I think I will have to get through it myself alone.
Nevermind, thank you once more.

Marian Such