[BioC] ReadAffy Error: new versions causing problems?

[Boel Brynedal]

Thank you, this works!

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:58 -0400, James W. MacDonald wrote:
> Hi Boel,
> 
> Boel Brynedal wrote:
> > Dear List,
> > 
> > I am a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. I have a problem
> > thats been evolving the last couple of days. The net result is that much
> > of what I do produces error messages. I'll give an example:
> > 
> > 
> >>raw<-ReadAffy()
> > 
> > Error in read.affybatch(filenames = l$filenames, phenoData = l
> > $phenoData,  :
> >         VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to a 'list', not a 'char'
> > 
> > Is there something wrong with my CEL-files? I exported some of them to
> > another computer with the same version of R and packages, and there it
> > worked fine.
> 
> I don't know that there is anything wrong with your celfiles. This error 
> usually means that ReadAffy() is sending something wrong to the C code, 
> most often due to errant passing of arguments as celfile names. However, 
> in your case this not what I would expect.
> 
> What do you get when you do
> 
> list.celfiles()?
> 
> Also, does
> 
> raw <- ReadAffy(filenames=list.celfiles())
> 
> help?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim
> 
> > 
> > When I use the biocLite installing route, the installation of both
> > tkWidgets and tcltk seams to fail:
> > Loading required package: tkWidgets
> > Error: package 'tkWidgets' could not be loaded
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > there is no package called 'tkWidgets' in: library(pkg, character.only =
> > TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
> > Execution halted
> > ERROR: execution of package source for 'marray' failed
> > ** Removing '/usr/local/lib64/R/library/marray'
> > ** Restoring previous '/usr/local/lib64/R/library/marray'
> > 
> > Could this be the reason for my problems; that old and new versions of
> > packages are mixed? 
> > 
> > My sessionInfo():
> > R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > 
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] "splines"   "tools"     "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> > [7] "datasets"  "methods"   "base"
> > 
> > other attached packages:
> >       gcrma matchprobes  simpleaffy  genefilter    survival        affy
> >     "2.8.1"     "1.8.1"     "2.8.0"    "1.14.1"      "2.31"    "1.14.0"
> >      affyio     Biobase
> >     "1.4.0"    "1.14.0"
> > 
> > Or can it be a more general problem? I just installed a new versions of
> > both R and bioconductor packages.
> > 
> > I'm not an expert in Linux or R, so I'll appreciate any advice!
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Boel Brynedal
> > 
> > --~*~**~***~*~***~**~*~--
> > Boel Brynedal, MSc, PhD student
> > Karolinska  Institutet
> > Department of Clinical neuroscience
> > 
> > Karolinska University hospital Huddinge
> > Division of Neurology, R54
> > 141 86 Stockholm
> > SWEDEN
> > Phone: +46 8 585 819 27
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