[R] install a package made using bioconductor package pdInfoBuilder

[Martin Morgan]

On 06/18/2013 04:06 PM, Johnson, Franklin Theodore wrote:
> Dear maintainer,
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> I used bioconductor package, pdInfoBuilder, to make a microarray platform
> annotation package.
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> I named this package, pd.pdinfo.gpl11164.ndf.txt. This "self-made package" is
> to be used with oligo package.
>

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Martin

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> Prior to using oligo package, I need to install the annotation package,
> pd.pdinfo.gpl11164.ndf.txt, and cannot just copy it to the library tree.
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> I tried using the install.packages with various arguments, only to fail the
> installation.
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> For example:
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> install.packages("pd.pdinfo.gpl11164.ndf.txt", lib="C:/Program
> Files/R/R-3.0.1/library", destdir="C:/Users/ZHUGRP/Desktop/Yanmin's
> Microarray Paper/Yanmin Microarray RAW/pdInfoBuilder").
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> I also tried to change the enviroment to .tar.gz, which also failed.
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> install.packages("pd.pdinfo.gpl11164.ndf.txt.tar.gz", lib="C:/Program
> Files/R/R-3.0.1/library", destdir="C:/Users/ZHUGRP/Desktop/Yanmin's
> Microarray Paper/Yanmin Microarray RAW/pdInfoBuilder", repos=NULL)
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> The pd.pdinfo.gpl11164.ndf.txt.tar.gz is located on my OS Windows 7 machine.
> I am trying to install it from my machine, using R "Good Sport."
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> I've looked in manuals and FAQs with no success.
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> If possible, I know this is very straight forward, however, am I missing a
> critical argument?
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> Hope to hear from you soon.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Franklin
>
>
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>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
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> 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
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> attached base packages: [1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils
> datasets  methods   base
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> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.0.1
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