[BioC] annotate incompatible with RdbiPgSQL !?!

[Philip Lijnzaad]

[ sorry, my reply was intended to go to BioC (I realize BioC-devel would 
prolly have been more approppriate) ]
  
On Monday 27 April 2009 19:14:40 you wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>   Please upgrade to R 2.9.x and relevant packages.  

I am sorry that I forgot to mention that I had actually tested it there as 
well, and the issue is identical (see below).  I had to downgrade to a 
previous release because RdbiPgSQL is broken in 2.9.x 
(see thread 'RdbiPgSQL problem: SET_VECTOR_ELT() can only be applied to 
a 'list', not a 'character'). 

(The 'unable to find an inherited method for function "dbConnect", for 
signature "PgSQL"' bug occurs only in combination with library(DBI), and is 
triggered by the PgSQL() call. The SET_VECTOR_ELT() problem comes after 
that).

> We are not able to provide assistance for 
> people that do not follow the guidelines.

My apologies for this. At the same time (since this basically is caused by the 
database connection package being broken), I would (kindly!) suggest that, in 
an ideal world, RdbiPgSQL ought to have been tested more thoroughly 
(especially connecting with an actual database) before the release; after all 
this is an infrastructure package. Anyways, kind regards,


Philip

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platform       i686-pc-linux-gnu                                               
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system         i686, linux-gnu                                                 
status         Under development (unstable)                                    
major          2                                                               
minor          9.0                                                             
year           2009                                                            
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version.string R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-01-22 
r47686)

> library(RdbiPgSQL)
Loading required package: Rdbi

> package.version("Rdbi")
[1] "1.8.0"

> package.version("RdbiPgSQL")
[1] "1.18.0"

> library(DBI)

Attaching package: 'DBI'


        The following object(s) are masked from package:RdbiPgSQL :

         make.db.names 


        The following object(s) are masked from package:Rdbi :

         dbClearResult,
         dbColumnInfo,
         dbConnect,
         dbDisconnect,
         dbGetQuery,
         dbListTables,
         dbReadTable,
         dbSendQuery,
         dbWriteTable 

> package.version("DBI")
[1] "0.2-4"

> conn=dbConnect(PgSQL(), host=db.host, dbname=db.name, user=db.user, 
password=db.password)
Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable)  : 
  unable to find an inherited method for function "dbConnect", for 
signature "PgSQL"
Calls: dbConnect -> .valueClassTest -> is -> <Anonymous>


-- 
Philip Lijnzaad, PhD
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