[BioC] unable to install package

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "ashok raja balla [guest]" <guest at bioconductor.org>
> To: bioconductor at r-project.org, ashokrajaballa at live.com
> Cc: "affy Maintainer" <rafa at jhu.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 6:43:32 PM
> Subject: [BioC] unable to install package
> 
> 
> how to install bioconductor packages ?
> I'm unable to install any package from bioconductor.
> im using this in Win 7 home basic. please help me.
> 
>  -- output of sessionInfo():
> 
> > biocLite()
> BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
> Using Bioconductor version 2.13 (BiocInstaller 1.12.0), R version
> 3.0.2.
> Warning message:
> installed directory not writable, cannot update packages 'foreign',
> 'lattice',
>   'Matrix', 'mgcv'

This is just a warning and you can ignore it.

> > biocLite(affy)
> Error in match(x, table, nomatch = 0L) : object 'affy' not found
> 

The correct command is:

biocLite("affy")

Note the quotation marks.

Dan




> 
> --
> Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bioconductor mailing list
> Bioconductor at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor
> Search the archives:
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor
>