[BioC] Using htmlpage

[john seers (IFR)]

Hello Bioconductor people

I am trying to use htmlpage (from the annotate package) so it can
generate html links in addition to the types of links already provided. 

>From the documentation of htmlpage it says:

"Additional repositories can easily be added. See getQueryLink for more
information."

But it does not seem as straightforward as I hoped. Trying to modify the
scripts hits difficulties with namespaces and local names. Can anyone
tell me if there is a simpler way? 

I defined my own copy of getQueryLink but htmlpage still called the
namespace version. This I could change using:

assignInNamespace("getQueryLink", getQueryLink, ns="annotate")

But then it did not work because getQueryLink could not see the original
internal scripts such as getQuery4Affy. So I modified the script again
to remove all the repositories I did not need. But I still needed the
getQuery4Affy helper script so I had to redefine that and use
assignInNamespace again.  

This seems too complicated. Have I missed an easier way? Any
suggestions? 




Regards


John



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R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252

attached base packages:
[1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods

[8] base     

other attached packages:
[1] annotate_1.20.1     xtable_1.5-4        AnnotationDbi_1.4.2
[4] Biobase_2.2.1       RWinEdt_1.8-0      

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] DBI_0.2-4     RSQLite_0.7-1
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