[BioC] Error in loading bioconductor packages in Rterm and ESS+XEmacs modes

Dr Mushtaq Ahmed mushtaq at persistent.co.in
Tue Apr 15 21:44:17 MEST 2003


Thanks for the reply. I would be delighted to know when you come up with the
solution.

Regards,
mushtaq


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Gentry" <jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu>
To: "Dr Mushtaq Ahmed" <mushtaq at persistent.co.in>
Cc: <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [BioC] Error in loading bioconductor packages in Rterm and
ESS+XEmacs modes


> > I am using the latest Bioconductor developement version on Windows.
> > The command library(affy) works fine from the R GUI.
> > But I am not able to import any packages (e.g. affy) when I use the
> > ESS+XEmacs or simply Rterm shell mode. I get the following error:
> > I think that it may be due to some extra work the package upload
> > routine tries to do like adding "Vignettes" menu to the GUI and fails to
> > do so in the Rterm mode.
>
> It appears that the package widgetTools (which is called by affy) tries to
> check if it is under GUI mode or not before adding a Vignette tab to the
> GUI menubar.  However, the current check that it is using is
> if(interactive), which is still TRUE even in Rterm.  We're looking at
> finding a mechanism to detect if it is inded Rgui instead of Rterm ...
>
> -J
>



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