[BioC] Re: R-1.5

Anthony Rossini rossini@u.washington.edu
Tue, 2 Apr 2002 07:09:59 -0800 (PST)


I thought we were targetting just 1.5 with all packages?   (hence the timing of release to be with 1.5).

Or do we plan on supporting older versions of R (i.e. 1.4.1 and past).

I'm worried about opening up a can of worms with respect to support.



On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Rafael A. Irizarry wrote:

> sorry if this was already discussed.
> 
> affy only works with R 1.5. In R 1.4.1 we get many of these:
> 
> Error in conformMethod(signature, mnames, fnames) : 
>         Method has formal arguments not in generic function:
> 
> 
> is this going to be a problem?
> 
> 
> when R starts we get many messages if Biobase is attached. like this:
> 
> Creating a new generic function for "[[<-" on element 
> 2 of the search path 
> 
> 
> many more with affy. 
> 
> is there a way to get rid of these?
> 
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