[BioC] bioconductor help

Byron Ellis bellis at hsph.harvard.edu
Tue Mar 11 13:35:26 MET 2003


On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 10:29  AM, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:

>
>> Dear there:
>>
>> I'm trying to install the bioconductor packages into R in Windows.
>>
>> 1. I downloaded the packages and the getBioC.R into the libary folder 
>> of R.
>
> that's inappropriate.  don't put things manually
> into the library folder until you have more expertise.
>
>> 2. Open getBioC.R.
>> 3. getBioC(lib="exprs")
>
> if i were you i would delete all changes to R or reinstall it.
> then
>
> 1) save the getBioC.R to the C drive
>
> 2) start R
>
> 3) source("C:\\getBioC.R")
>

Alternatively you could just run 
source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R"). This is generally what 
I tell new folks to do, though you still need to run getBioC("exprs") 
after that.

> 4) getBioC("exprs")
>
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Byron Ellis (bellis at hsph.harvard.edu)
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