[BioC] Wow, what have I done

[Ben Bolstad]

I can't speak to specifics of the various mac builds and installing
R/BioC. But keep in mind that there is a new release of R every six
months or so and a corresponding release of BioConductor at about the
same time. Given that the current release of R is the 2.6.X series (and
corresponding BioC release is 2.1) that puts your 2.3.1 (BioC 1.8) back
about 2 years ago. And in a fairly fast moving dynamic project like BioC
2 years is a long time. Additionally, unlike your garden variety package
on CRAN, there is a huge level of interdependence between packages
meaning  you'd have to make sure that all those packages work with
whatever version of affyQCreport you are trying to get working. 

All that makes a huge support headache and thus there is little interest
for people to put the effort into helping you with trying to get things
working on an out of date version of the software, ergo the refrain for
you to attempt to get the most recent release version of R and BioC
going.

Best,

Ben



On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 16:02 -0800, Loren Engrav wrote:
> Thank you
> I tried and failed, you are right, I am confused
> Am using R64 2.3.1 and the monster pack since it is available and I have not
> installed Leopard as yet
> But R64 2.3.1 monster does not include affyQCReport and I have failed at
> loading it into R64 2.3.1 inspite of your trying to help
> 
> By the way, if I get Leopard up this weekend, where is an R64 for Leopard
> with affyQCReport and affy?
> 
> Thank you
>