[BioC] installing affy devel package

[Ben Bolstad]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 16:15, Isaac Mehl wrote:
> ben,
> 
> thank you for the reply.  i am using affy 1.4.1.  in the email thread
> you mentioned 1.4.4 can handle binary files.
> 
> -isaac
> 

Yes, what happened is that around 1.4.4 binary cel file compatibility
was introduced into the development series. The official release version
at this time was 1.3.26 and did not have the ability to read binary cel
files. At about version 1.4.6 the development version started to require
R-1.9 (in development). So binary cel file compatibility was ported back
to the release tree as affy version 1.3.28.

In summary

Can read binary cel files
Release 1.3.27 
Development 1.4.4 and newer  (After 1.4.6 required R-1.9.X)

Cannot read binary cel files
Release 1.3.26 and earlier
Development 1.4.0-1.4.3

Hope this clarifies the issue.

Ben