[BioC] flowCore: Prerequisites for norm2Filter?

[M. Jankowski]

Byron,

This (plus cleaning up my data a little bit) solved my problem.

Thanks!
Matt

On 8/11/07, Byron Ellis <byron.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
> The function installed.packages() can give you that. For reference, my
> (working) version of rrcov is 0.3-06. To upgrade your packages to
> latest versions you can use update.packages() or install.packages()
> manually to get the current CRAN version.
>
> To test the rob.cov versus covMcd set method="cov.rob" when specifying
> your norm2Filter.
>
> On 8/11/07, M. Jankowski <mjankowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/11/07, Byron Ellis <byron.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > From the backtrace it looks like the problem is in the covMcd method
> > > implemented by rrcov (which we merely use). Did you try using the
> > > cov.rob method to see if you get a similar crash? You might also want
> > > to check your rrcov version to see if a newer one is available from
> > > CRAN.
> > >
> > My newbieness to R is showing. How would I set up a test to check the
> > rrcov method? My other question is how do I do a version check for
> > rrcov? I'm running the CRAN 2.5.1 versioin of R on Ubuntu...but don't
> > know how to check for a package version.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> > Matt
> >
>
>
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> Byron Ellis (byron.ellis at gmail.com)
> "Oook" -- The Librarian
>