[BioC] Wow, what have I done

[Ben Bolstad]

If we had the revenue streams of Microsoft we could put the energy into
support, but we don't.

Here is one more alternative suggestion. Why don't you put the effort
into figuring out the underlying functions being used by affyQCreport?
Sure you won't get the nicely formatted report (and people can feel free
to correct me if that is not what it does), but you should be able to
get access to all the underlying QC statistics.

For instance

AffyRNAdeg(), hist() and boxplot() from affy
qc() from simpleaffy
:

Best,

Ben

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 18:09 -0800, Loren Engrav wrote:
> 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
> >> 
> >
> 
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