[BioC] old version of affy package 1.5.8

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Leonor,

I just checked, and you get getBioC.R the same way you get biocLite.R

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")

So getting previous versions is easier than I thought...

Best,

Jim



Leonor Palmeira wrote:
> [back in thread]
> 
> 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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