[BioC] Error loading reposTools

[Warnes, Gregory R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Gentry [mailto:jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 12:44 PM
> To: Warnes, Gregory R
> Cc: 'bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch'
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Error loading reposTools
> 
> 
> > I've discovered that if you have old package data has been cached,
> > attempting to load the newest reposTools will fail with 
> this message:
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here by "old package data has been cached".

Sorry, if a "liblisting.Rda" fike created by an older (broken?) reposTools
exists in the package directory syncLocalLibList() will fail with the
message:

Error in if (e1[i] != e2[i]) return(TRUE) : 
 missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

Which bails out of library(reposTools), preventing the loading of libraries
depending on reposTools.   Perhaps it would be good to store a version
number in the "liblisting.Rda" file so that an obsolete one can be ignored &
a new one regenerated?

> 
> > In addition, the devel affy package depends on affydata, 
> which depends on
> > affy, resulting in a situation where install.packages2() 
> can't install
> > either one or anthing depending on them.   
> 
> This is fixed in the latest version of reposTools (1.1.37)

I got this problem with 1.1.37, using install.packages, and had to manually
install affy and affydata to fix the problem.

-Greg

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