[BioC] Bioconductor on Unix: cannot load the library affy
Ramon Diaz
rdiaz at cnio.es
Fri May 9 14:30:19 MEST 2003
Actually, I get an identical error which seems to be caused by the
installation process not installing the DESCRIPTION file.
If I install by downloading Bioconductor_1.1.tar.gz and then doing the usual
"R CMD INSTALL Bioconductor_1.1.tar.gz", then there are no DESCRIPTION files
in the directories. (The same thing happens if I use the getBioC() function).
However, if I download the individual tar.gz file for each package, and
install each of them individually, then everything works fine.
The strange thing is that this did not happen to me about two days after the
release of R 1.7.0, when I installed the deb package. A few weeks later I
built R from sources, and I just noticed this problem with bioconductor last
night.
If I now use the original installed package, I get the same error. Note that I
have been able to install other packages from CRAN, such as car, gregmisc or
e1071, without trouble.
Maybe this is a problem with my setup (and with Johanne's set up), but I don't
see it, specially since everything works OK when I install the individual
Bioc. packages one by one.
> version
_
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686, linux-gnu
status
major 1
minor 7.0
year 2003
month 04
day 16
language R
Ramón
On Thursday 08 May 2003 22:37, Jeff Gentry wrote:
> > > library(affy)
> >
> > Error in library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE,
> > warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, : This is not a valid package -- no
> > DESCRIPTION exists
> > Error in library(affy) : .First.lib failed
> >
> > > q()
>
> It would seem that somehow your installation of the affy package is
> broken.
>
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Ramón Díaz-Uriarte
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