[R] No direct or inherited method for function "update"

[Dick Beyer]

Thanks very much for your help.  Following your suggestion, I found that the offending bioconductor package is affy.  I will report that to the bioconductor folks.

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On Wed, 26 May 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Try doing this without all those Bioconductor packages loaded.  It does 
> work in base R, and I suspect that one of your packages has redefined 
> update (by adding S4 methods?).  If you track down exactly which package 
> causes the problem, you can report it to the appropriate person.
> 
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Dick Beyer wrote:
> 
> > I used to be able to call update() for lme objects. Now I get this error:
> > 
> > >   ge.lme <- update(ge.lme, data=dat)
> > Error in update(ge.lme, data = dat) : No direct or inherited method for function "update" for this call
> > 
> > 
> > Here is the relevant portion of my code:
> > 
> > ge     <- eset[1,]
> > dat    <- data.frame(age, gen, fdr, ge)
> > ge.lme <- lme(fixed=ge~age+gen+age*gen, data=dat, random=~ 1| fdr)
> > for (i in 1:nrow(eset)) {
> >   dat$ge <- c(eset[i,])
> >   ge.lme <- update(ge.lme, data=dat)
> >   .
> >   .
> >   .
> > }
> > 
> > I am using:
> > base 1.9.0 
> > utils 1.9.0 
> > graphics 1.9.0 
> > stats 1.9.0 
> > methods 1.9.0 
> > Biobase 1.4.14 
> > affy 1.4.30 
> > gcrma 1.1.0 
> > annaffy 1.0.7 
> > KEGG 1.4.0 
> > GO 1.5.1 
> > mgu74av2 1.4.0 
> > nlme 3.1-48 
> > xtable 1.2-1 
> > 
> > Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks much,
> > Dick
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> > Richard P. Beyer, Ph.D.	University of Washington
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