
Dear colleagues,


I m trying to use the AffyProbeMiner packages available from http://gauss.dbb.georgetown.edu/liblab/affyprobeminer/gene.html?that can replace the usual CDF probes and annotation files available in BioC.

I m using R 2.6.0 under WinXPPro SP2.
I have downloaded the files available on the webpage above in the R library folder. 
These are gz.rar compressed files and are not recognized in R windows : Packages -> Install packages from local zip files. 
I have used WinRar to uncompress these files and have copy and paste the?folders (ex: hgu133ageneccds) located in the uncompressed folders (ex: hgu133ageneccds_1.1.0) in the R folder library.??

Then if I type:
?> library(hgu133ageneccds)

I obtain the following error:
Error in library(hgu133ageneccds) : 
? 'hgu133ageneccdscdf' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
The same is true for all of these files

Is it a problem of compatibility with R (too old files ?) ? Should I use a different way to install these packages in R 2.6.0 ?


Is there a plan to include these files and their update in BioC metadata ?


Thanks for your help
and hoping that this request will not be out of scope from this list since it is not a bioconductor package.

Philippe Guardiola, MD


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