[BioC] affylmGUI/biocReposList() Problem

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Burkhard,

Well, that all looks OK. So the next likely culprit is affylmGUI itself. 
Since you are not getting the gene symbols, it would be reasonable to 
assume that affylmGUI is trying to download and install the correct 
annotation package.

You don't say what chip data you are analyzing, so I can't give much 
more than a generalized pointer. If it is an old-school 3'-biased chip 
(like the HG-U133 plus 2 chip), then you can usually get really close to 
the right name by just reducing to lower case and removing all 
punctuation, then adding a .db, so e.g, hgu133plus2.db is the annotation 
package. If you are using a Gene ST package, then you want to do the 
same, but add transcriptcluster.db. So e.g., the HuGene 1.0 ST chip 
annotation package is the hugene10sttranscriptcluster.db.

So try installing the correct annotation package first, then do your 
analysis. See if that helps.

Best,

Jim



On 7/5/2012 4:54 PM, Burkhard Heil wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply. Here is the Output of sessionInfo:
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] tcltk     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] affylmGUI_1.30.0   affyio_1.24.0      affy_1.34.0        Biobase_2.16.0
> [5] BiocGenerics_0.2.0 limma_3.12.1       stringr_0.6
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.4.7   plyr_1.7.1            preprocessCore_1.18.0
> [4] zlibbioc_1.2.0
> Cheers
> Burkhard
>
>
> On 05.07.2012, at 21:05, "James W. MacDonald"<jmacdon at uw.edu>  wrote:
>
>> HI Burkhard,
>>
>> On 7/5/2012 9:24 AM, Burkhard Heil wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> when trying to calculate the Toptable in affylmGUI there pops the following error message up:
>>>
>>> Error: The biocReposList() function is defunct. Please use biocLite() to install packages source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite("<pkgname>") if you really need to get the list of Bioconductor package repositories (like biocReposList() does), then do: source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocinstallRepos()
>>>
>>> The Toptable ist still calculated but without the Gene Symbols. When I call biocLite() from R, it tries to install the packages 'Biobase' 'IRanges' and 'AnnotationDbi'. Sounds to me that the last one is causing the problem. Also, biocLite complains that it can't access "http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.15". I read the post about that problem and changed the mirror via chooseBioCmirror(). biocLite still looks for the brainarray adress but then install from another mirror. But everytime I call biocLite it installs those 3 packges.
>>>
>>> I'm running R 2.15.1 on OS X Lion. AffylmGUI and all the relevant packages should have the most recent version.
>> Should have? That's not very reassuring. Why don't you load affylmGUI, run sessionInfo() and then post the output.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
>>>
>>> Burkhard
>>>
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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
University of Washington
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
4225 Roosevelt Way NE, # 100
Seattle WA 98105-6099