[BioC] Can Bioconductor be used offline?

Wolfgang Huber whuber at embl.de
Sat Dec 22 17:41:40 CET 2012


Dear Fedor

it should be sufficient to install the 'probe' package associated with your microarray type.
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html#___AffymetrixChip

	Best wishes
	Wolfgang

Il giorno Dec 21, 2012, alle ore 10:06 PM, Fedor Syagin <fs2307 at c2b2.columbia.edu> ha scritto:

> Greetings. 
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> Sorry to bother you. 
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> My name is Fedor Syagin and I work for Columbia University - C2B2.
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> One of the users on our computational cluster keep getting following error
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> Adjusting for optical
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> ........................................................Done.
> Computing affinitiesError in getProbePackage(probepackagename) :
> The current operation could not access the Bioconductor repository. Please
> check your internet connection, and report further problems to
> bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Calls: gcrma ... bg.adjust.gcrma -> compute.affinities -> getProbePackage
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> after running following code:
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> library ("AnnotationDbi")
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> library("affy")
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> library("affyPLM")
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> library("simpleaffy")
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> library("yaqcaffy")
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> library("gcrma")
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> library("limma")
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> library("arrayQualityMetrics")
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> library("gplots")
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> AffyBatch = ReadAffy()
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> NormalizedEset_gcrma <- gcrma(AffyBatch,fast=FALSE)
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> When job are submitted on the cluster there is no internet connectivity -
> so question is does this error indicate that 
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> Bioconductor require active internet connection at all time (not only
> during package installation) or this is error in code / installation.
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> Is there a particular way how this can be avoided that comes to your mind.
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> I would appreciate your help in this matter.
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> Thank you and have great holidays.
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> Sincerely yours Fedor Syagin
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