[BioC] Trouble getting started with Bioconductor

[w.huber at dkfz-heidelberg.de]

Hi,

If you are using R 1.8, you need to use the development version of
Bioconductor. Version 1.2 only works with R 1.7.1.

Best regards
  Wolfgang

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Paul Cantalupo wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Win2K machine and I just downloaded and installed R 1.8.0. Then
> I followed the directions in http://www.bioconductor.org/faq.html under
> the heading of "Installing Bioconductor packages using the installation
> script getBioC.R". The installation seemed to go well but when I tried
> loading a library like AnnBuilder (or any other Bioconductor package), I
> got this error:
>
>  > library(AnnBuilder)
> Error in bindingIsLocked(m2, where) : not an environment
> Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
>          Package Biobase unavailable!
> Error in library(AnnBuilder) : .First.lib failed
>
>
> Can somebody please help me? I am not sure where to turn to next.