[BioC] Question about a packages not yet in Bioconductor: AffyProbeMiner in R260 under windows

[Robert Gentleman]

It looks like you are using windows and they do not provide packages for 
windows users. The reason they are not recognized by R is that they 
won't work.

Your options are to
1) install enough tools on your computer to build packages (details can 
be found on CRAN)
2) use the remapped probe packages that are released through the 
Bioconductor project for which we do have windows packages

I have no idea what the intentions of AffyProbeMiner are, they have 
never submitted anything, and until they do, it won't even be considered,

  best wishes
    Robert


phguardiol at aol.com wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> 
> I m trying to use the AffyProbeMiner packages available from http://gauss.dbb.georgetown.edu/liblab/affyprobeminer/gene.html?that can replace the usual CDF probes and annotation files available in BioC.
> 
> I m using R 2.6.0 under WinXPPro SP2.
> I have downloaded the files available on the webpage above in the R library folder. 
> These are gz.rar compressed files and are not recognized in R windows : Packages -> Install packages from local zip files. 
> I have used WinRar to uncompress these files and have copy and paste the?folders (ex: hgu133ageneccds) located in the uncompressed folders (ex: hgu133ageneccds_1.1.0) in the R folder library.??
> 
> Then if I type:
> ?> library(hgu133ageneccds)
> 
> I obtain the following error:
> Error in library(hgu133ageneccds) : 
> ? 'hgu133ageneccdscdf' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?
> The same is true for all of these files
> 
> Is it a problem of compatibility with R (too old files ?) ? Should I use a different way to install these packages in R 2.6.0 ?
> 
> 
> Is there a plan to include these files and their update in BioC metadata ?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help
> and hoping that this request will not be out of scope from this list since it is not a bioconductor package.
> 
> Philippe Guardiola, MD
> 
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