[BioC] problem installing Bioconductor

[David Millis]

Dr. Gentleman -

Sorry that my description of the problem was incomplete. However, you
correctly diagnosed my problem.

Yes, back in January I had written a "get" function while studying for a
statistics exam, and had completely forgotten about this (pretty
embarrassing the more I think about it). I removed that function, and now
the installation script is able to run smoothly.

I am very grateful for the time you took to assist me, and will try to be a
better mailing list citizen in the future.

David.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Gentleman [mailto:rgentlem at fhcrc.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:50 PM
To: David Millis
Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [BioC] problem installing Bioconductor

It looks like you might have defined your own function get (or someone 
else did).  You could find out using something like find:
eg
 > find("get")
[1] "package:base"
 > get = function(x) x
 > find("get")
[1] ".GlobalEnv"   "package:base"
 >

Notice I defined one - and now I get:
 > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Error in get(objname, inherits = FALSE) :
   unused argument(s) (inherits = FALSE)

removing my version of get makes this work again.


So perhaps you are restoring a saved R session when you start, or 
something like that. Anyway, please read the posting guide and try to 
follow the directions there, which ask for more details than you have 
provided - then the rest of us have to guess less.

thanks
  Robert

David Millis wrote:
> I have installed R 2.9.1 in Windows Vista. I am trying to install
> Bioconductor using the install script on the Bioconductor web site:
> 
>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
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> However, I get an error message:
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> "Error in get(objname, inherits = FALSE) :
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>   Unused argument(s) (inherits = FALSE)"
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> I got the same error message using R 2.7.0. I have not had other problems
> using R 2.7.0 or R 2.9.1 in Vista.
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> Can anyone help explain what I might be doing wrong? 
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> Thanks -
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> David Millis.
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