[BioC] html "help"

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Naomi,

Naomi Altman wrote:
> Dear Jim,
> Here is what I found.  Firstly, I do not have libPaths, but I do have 
> something called .libPaths which seems to have been set when the 
> directory was created.

Yes. My bad. It is .libPaths().

> 
>  .libPaths()
> [1] "C:\\Documents and Settings\\naomi\\My Documents/R/win-library/2.6"
> [2] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.1/library"                                  
>  > help.start()
> updating HTML package listing
> updating HTML search index
> fixing URLs in non-standard libraries

The above line indicates that the correct URLs are getting set, so you 
should see the BioC packages at the top of the listing when you click on 
'Packages'.

> If nothing happens, you should open 
> 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-26~1.1\doc\html\index.html' yourself
>  > .libPaths("C:/")
>  > help.start()
> updating HTML package listing
> updating HTML search index
> fixing URLs in non-standard libraries
> If nothing happens, you should open 
> 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-26~1.1\doc\html\index.html' yourself
> 
> One thing I noticed is that the directory holding the bioconductor 
> libraries, C:\\Documents and Settings\\naomi\\My 
> Documents/R/win-library/2.6 does not have a doc folder and so presumably 
> the html files have not been downloaded.  Was there some flag I should 
> have set when downloading the libraries?

They are technically *packages* that are downloaded to a *library* (I 
can hear Martin Maechler's teeth grinding from here ;-D). Pedantic notes 
aside, no you don't need to set any flags, just use 
biocLite(<packagename>. Anyway, there isn't a doc folder. The HTML is in 
the html directory of the package.

Best,

Jim


> 
> --Naomi
> 
> 
> At 02:31 PM 6/18/2008, James W. MacDonald wrote:
>> Did you set your library paths?
>>
>> I did the following and it works for me on both R-2.7.0 and R-devel.
>>
>> libPaths("C:/")
>> biocLite("drosophila2probe")
>>
>> then
>>
>> help.start()
>>
>> brings up the HTML help with the heading
>>
>> Packages in C:\
>> Cross-links from this library to other libraries may not work.
>>
>> drosophila2probe [snip]
>>
>> Packages in the standard library
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> Naomi Altman wrote:
>>> Thanks to increased security here, I now have to download 
>>> Bioconductor routines into my own library rather than the R program 
>>> library.  (Thanks to whoever implemented this - works great.)  
>>> However, I am a huge fan of the html "help" and the Bioconductor 
>>> packages no longer appear.  Any suggestions?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Naomi S. Altman                                814-865-3791 (voice)
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>>
>> -- 
>> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
>> Biostatistician
>> Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
>> University of Michigan Cancer Center
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> 
> Naomi S. Altman                                814-865-3791 (voice)
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of Statistics                              814-863-7114 (fax)
> Penn State University                         814-865-1348 (Statistics)
> University Park, PA 16802-2111
> 

-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
7410 CCGC
Ann Arbor MI 48109
734-647-5623