[BioC] Packages "clusterProfiler" and "illuminaHumanv4.db" not available for installation

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Luke Pilling <luke.pilling at pcmd.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello, and thanks for your time.
>
> I am new to Bioconductor, and cannot seem to get off the starting line as yet. I have so far successfully installed several useful packages into my R installation (v2.10.1).
>
> However, I have Illumina HT12 microarray data, and have thus tried to install "illuminaHumanv4.db" (annotation file) to accompany the annotation tools I have also downloaded, but it is apparently unavailable when I run the command 'biocLite("illuminaHumanv4.db")'.
>
> The same is also true for "clusterProfiler" - it would be a great tool to use, however it is also unavailable using the appropriate command.
>
> I am using a Windows machine, and both packages are apparently compliant with a Windows installation. I do not have access to a linux machine in this office.
>
> Is this a common issue, and will they become available again? And if not, how would I go about manually installing the packages from the available downloads?

The likely problem is that you are using a (very) old version of R,
which in turn is using an older version of bioconductor.

Please install the newest version of R (2.13) and then reinstall your
bioconductor packages via the biocLite mechanism.

HTH,
-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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