[BioC] old version of affy package 1.5.8

[Leonor Palmeira]

Leonor Palmeira a écrit :
> Hi Leonor,

[...]

> Actually yes. Nothing ever goes away.

I was crossing fingers for that! However, the 'readonly' user and 
'readonly' password don't seem to work (403 forbidden access) to access 
the svn depository. So, I couldn't explore this possibility.

I also tried installing R.2.0.0 and running biocLite() from within this 
old R. But, when calling "http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R", R calls 
for "http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R" which explicitely checks for 
the R version and returns an error (R version should be above R.2.1.0).

When taking a look at the biocLite.R script, this line caught my eye:

## R versions less than 2.1.0 need to use the old (BioC 1.5) version of 
getBioC.R

but I have no idea where to get the old version of getBioC.R.
Does someone know how I could get help on this?

Thank you very much,
Leonor.

> And if I am not mistaken, you can
> get this for yourself. All you need is a subversion client, which you
> can get here if you aren't on Linux (if you are on Linux it is easier to
> install using whatever package manager your distro uses):
> 
> http://subversion.tigris.org/
> 
> Then you can get any of the packages from release 1.5 here:
> 
> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/branches/RELEASE_1_5/madman/Rpacks
> 
> e.g.,
> 
> svn co
> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/branches/RELEASE_1_5/madman/Rpacks/affy 
> 
> 
> will get you the affy sources. You want to use the username readonly and
> password readonly, which I think should work.
> 
> You will probably need to get other packages as well, depending on what
> the dependencies were for affy at that time. In addition, you will need
> to get R-2.0.0, as there is no guarantee that an old affy will run on
> current R.
> 
> You might also just try installing R-2.0.0 and running biocLite(). It
> might actually work.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jim

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