[BioC] problem installing the affy package

[Seth Falcon]

"Martin O'Gorman" <martinogorman at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi there, I have just installed the "affy" package from bioconductor
> by downloading the .zip file for windows and extracting to
> ..\R\R-2.3.1\library\ ,ie the directory where all my R packages
> live. However, I can't seem to open the package, getting the following
> error message.
>
>> library(affy) Error in library(affy) : there is no package called
> affy'
>
> I have followed the same procedure for affyio without any problems. Am
> I doing something wrong?

Actually, yes.  Please follow the installation instructions here:

http://www.bioconductor.org/download

In R:
   source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
   biocLite("affy")

+ seth

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