[BioC] installation warnings and other related questions

[Seth Falcon]

Hi Weiwei,

On 24 Oct 2005, helprhelp at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Listers: I am trying to use Bioconductor doing some microarray
> analysis. When I installed it via following commands in R, I got the
> following warnings: source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite()
>
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found' Warning: unable to
> access index for repository
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/data/experiment/stable/bin/windows/contrib/2.1
> Warning message: cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/omegahat/stable/bin/windows/contrib/2.1
> Warning message: cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/lindsey/stable/bin/windows/contrib/2.1
> dependency 'golubEsets' is not available
>
> The configuration of my R and machine is
>> R.version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    2
> minor    1.1
> year     2005
> month    06
> day      20
> language R

Thanks for the report.  Something needs fixing and we will get on it
:-)

I recommend that you install the latest released version of R (2.2.0)
and then repeat the biocLite routine.  This will allow you to install
the latest released versions of Bioconductor packages which are sure
to have bug fixes and other improvements.

+ seth