[R] Problem with pixmap on R 1.7.0?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Kenneth Cabrera wrote:
> > Hi R users:
> > I got the following message when I use the pixmap library
> > on R 1.7.0 over w2K platform (on R 1.6.2 it runs right).
> > 
> > pixmapGrey(matrix(c(0,1),128,128))
> > Error in .class1(object) : Object "from" not found
> > 
> > I download the library .zip file from:
> > 
> > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/pixmap_0.3-2.zip
> 
> It seems to be a problem with this specific binary file for windows.

R has changed since it was compiled and it needed to be re-dumped.
That's a problem with S4-using packages, and of course I haven't had a 
released version of 1.7.0 to build them against until today (see below).

> Installing from sources solves the problem. I made a fresh bundled 
> binary available at 
> http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/~ligges/pixmap_0.3-2.zip while
> 
> Brian seems to be away for recompiling these days.

Yes, he has holidays sometimes.
The Vienna master site should be up to date tomorrow, including this.

> > Other question:
> > 
> > When I try to "Install package(s) from bioconductor" I got the
> > following message:
> > 
> > local({a<-CRAN.packages(CRAN=getOption("BIOC"))
> > + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], 
> > available=a, CRAN=getOption("BIOC"))})
> > 
> > trying URL `http://www.bioconductor.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/PACKAGES'
> > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"),  
> > : cannot open: HTTP status was `404 Not Found'
> > 
> > Are the packages in other path of www.bioconductor.org? Which one?
> 
> This seems to be solved now.

bioC needed to catch up with R 1.7.x, that's all.

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