[BioC] Wow, what have I done

[Loren Engrav]

That is so very true and you are so correct
And when I used to code stuff it irritated me when people used old versions
Nevermind that Balmer wishes to preserve legacy to 1990

But I need (or want) a 64bit version or R and affyQCReport

And on the 64 bit page (http://r.research.att.com/exp/) I find two
2.5.0 for Intel and 2.3.1 for PPC

I do not have Intel so am trying to use 2.3.1

People have been trying to help and I am grateful

Maybe the answer is
2.3.1 is dead and I need to buy a new Intel Mac computer

But it is tempting to think I can load affyQCReport into 2.3.1 and solve the
problem fast

But maybe I just cannot get there from here

-- 
Loren Engrav
Univ Washington
Seattle

> From: Ben Bolstad <bmb at bmbolstad.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:48:17 -0800
> To: Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>
> Cc: "bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch" <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Wow, what have I done
> 
> 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 working on an out of date version of the software, ergo the refrain for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
>> 
>