[BioC] affy package not loading

[Nicholas Lewin-Koh]

Hi, 
I am trying to load the development version of the affy package and i
get the following error. I am using R 1.6.1 on RH linux 8.0. Any I deas?

Nicholas

 
library(affy)
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affy: development version
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The package is under major changes.
unpack the package and read the file NEWS to know more....
The draft for the new vignette (called 'affy2') is distributed with the
pacakge
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demo(affy.tour) will eventually work and give an overview...
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Loading required package: methods
Expanding the signature to include omitted arguments
in definition: j = "missing"

Attaching package `Biobase':


        The following object(s) are masked from package:base :

         split

-->detecting normalization methods from naming convention
-->detecting expression value methods from naming convention
-->detecting background correction methods from naming convention
-->detecting pm correction methods from naming convention
-->initCdf
-->initCel
-->initAffyBatch
Error in getClass(Class) : "MIAME" is not a defined class
Error in library(affy) : .First.lib failed