[BioC] BiocGenerics 0.5.6 not loading properly

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Seb <seba.bat at gmail.com> wrote:
> i just did that and this is the error before R crashes...
>
> BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
> Using R version 2.15, BiocInstaller version 1.4.9.
> Error in readRDS(file) : embedded nul in string: '\0'
>
> ..?!??
>
>

What's the output of the command:

biocinstallRepos()

?

Dan


> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Seb,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Seb <seba.bat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > i tried to open Rsamtools but got an error message of
>> >
>> > Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
>> >   could not find function ".getNamespace"
>> >
>> > i found out if depends on the BiocGenerics tool, so that when i try to
>> > open
>> > it i get the following error.
>> >
>> >> library(BiocGenerics)
>> > Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) :
>> >   could not find function ".getNamespace"
>> > In addition: Warning message:
>> > package ‘BiocGenerics’ was built under R version 3.0.0
>> > Error : unable to load R code in package ‘BiocGenerics’
>> > Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘BiocGenerics’
>> >
>> > i googled it but i couldn't find any real help to solve this...any idea?
>> >
>>
>>
>> It looks like you installed the devel version of some packages. The
>> quickest way to fix this is:
>>
>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>> biocLite(character())
>>
>> Then answer "a" at the prompt to reinstall all packages.
>> If you always use biocLite() to install packages you won't run into
>> this situation.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> > thanks
>> >
>> > Seb
>> >
>> > ==============================
>> >> sessionInfo()
>> > R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
>> > Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> >
>> > locale:
>> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> > States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United
>> > States.1252
>> >
>> > attached base packages:
>> > [1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> > base
>> >
>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> > [1] tools_2.15.1
>> >
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