[BioC] installing bioconductor

[jon butchar]

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:03:54 -0400
"Altiner, Ahmet (NIH/NCI) [G]" <altinera at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> Thanks everyone.
> 
> I tried both suggestions, still getting error message. Both with BiocLite()
> (same message -- "Error in .readRDS(pfile) : cannot read workspace version 0
> written by R 2.1.1; need R 1.4.0 or newer") 
> and if I use:
> getBioC(groupname="affy") (which gives the error message ("Error in
> install.packages(pkgs = c("affy", "affydata", "affyPLM", "annaffy",  : 
>         unused argument(s) (groupname ...)")
> 
> any takers?
> 
> Ahmet
> 
Hi.

It's "groupName", not "groupname".  This was my idiot error in the previous note, that and the misspelling of James MacDonald's name...

Still, it looks like something else might be wrong, possibly with the R installation somehow?  Anyhow, I hope that groupName works for you.

Take care,

jon b