[BioC] problem while loading affycoretools

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Mayte Suarez-Farinas
<farinam at mail.rockefeller.edu> wrote:
> I updated to the most recent R version. After this brand new installation, I get the following error while loading library affycoretools:
>
> library(affycoretools)
> Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
>   there is no package called ‘ff’
> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘affycoretools’

This is strange -- for some reason R is trying to load the ff package,
but as far as I am aware, affycoretools does not depend on this
package.

You can try to install ff first and see if affycoretools will load:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ff/index.html

I'm curious if you have trouble loading any other package? Perhaps you
can try something completely out of bioconductor land like ggplot2 or
plyr.

Do those work?

You might want to start R via `R --vanilla` in your terminal. Perhaps
there's some weirdness in an ~/.Rdata file that is being loaded and is
tripping you up (I'd try this first, actually).

HTH,
-steve

-- 
Steve Lianoglou
Computational Biologist
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Genentech