[BioC] another error in getBioC()

Jeff Gentry jgentry@jimmy.harvard.edu
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:25:30 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Stephen Henderson wrote:
> I left the computer on overnight and had the old BioBase loaded-- it was
> probably trying to use this old version during the install process
> (Maybe??)!!

It would seem that the problem here lies in the case where Biobase (or
reposTools) is already currently loaded on the system, as getBioC() makes
a call to library(), which does not 'refresh' the loaded package.  We can
look at ways to fix this potential problem.

Thanks,
-J