[BioC] Can't get RCurl...

Christos Hatzis christos at nuverabio.com
Thu Apr 5 23:32:27 CEST 2007


RCurl is available from the Omegahat site:

http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurl_0.8-0.tar.gz 

-Christos

Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Jenny Drnevich
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 5:21 PM
> To: James W. MacDonald
> Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Can't get RCurl...
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> biocLite("RCurl") did work. I'm not sure what went wrong 
> before...  The person I was helping had tried to download 
> packages on his own before, and I don't think he was using 
> biocLite. What may have happened is that he installed biomaRt 
> via a local zip file, but then didn't remove it before doing 
> biocLite("affycoretools"). Perhaps biocLite stopped because 
> it saw he had biomaRt, which is a dependency of 
> affycoretools, whereas RCurl is not a direct dependency of 
> affycoretools.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jenny
> 
> 
> At 03:42 PM 4/5/2007, James W. MacDonald wrote:
> >Hi Jenny,
> >
> >Seems odd that biocLite() didn't install all dependencies, 
> but what do 
> >you get with biocLite("RCurl")?
> >
> >You might also add RMySQL, which is much faster if you need 
> to annotate 
> >lots of genes.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >Jenny Drnevich wrote:
> >>HI,
> >>I'm helping someone install the affycoretools package, but 
> there seems 
> >>to be a problem getting RCurl that's needed for biomaRt and hence 
> >>affycoretools. Here's what was done and the sessionInfo():
> >>I just uninstalled everything and re-installed R and Bioconductor 
> >>packages using
> >>  > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> >>  > biocLite()
> >>After that I installed afyycoretools by:
> >>  > biocLite("affycoretools")
> >>It gave the following message:
> >>  > biocLite("affycoretools")
> >>Running biocinstall version 1.9.9 with R version 2.4.1 Your 
> version of 
> >>R requires version 1.9 of Bioconductor.
> >>trying URL
> >>'http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.9/bioc/bin/windows/contr
> ib/2.4/affycoretools_1.6.1.zip'
> >>Content type 'application/zip' length 6867656 bytes opened URL 
> >>downloaded 6706Kb package 'affycoretools' successfully unpacked and 
> >>MD5 sums checked The downloaded packages are in
> >>          C:\Documents and Settings\Hoyer Lab\Local  
> >>Settings\Temp\RtmpDLCJrb\downloaded_packages
> >>updating HTML package descriptions
> >>It seems the installation is successful.
> >>However, when I tried to load affycoretools by:
> >>  >library(affycoretools)
> >>It gave the fowllowings:
> >>  > library(affycoretools)
> >>Loading required package: affy
> >>Loading required package: Biobase
> >>Loading required package: tools
> >>Welcome to Bioconductor
> >>      Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type
> >>      'openVignette()' or start with 'help(Biobase)'. For details
> >>      on reading vignettes, see the openVignette help page.
> >>Loading required package: affyio
> >>Loading required package: limma
> >>Loading required package: GOstats
> >>Loading required package: graph
> >>Loading required package: GO
> >>Loading required package: annotate
> >>Loading required package: RBGL
> >>Loading required package: Category
> >>Loading required package: KEGG
> >>Loading required package: genefilter
> >>Loading required package: survival
> >>Loading required package: splines
> >>Loading required package: biomaRt
> >>Loading required package: XML
> >>Attaching package: 'XML'
> >>
> >>          The following object(s) are masked from package:graph :
> >>           addNode
> >>Loading required package: RCurl
> >>Error: package 'RCurl' could not be loaded In addition: Warning 
> >>message:
> >>there is no package called 'RCurl' in: library(pkg, 
> character.only = 
> >>TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
> >>  > sessionInfo()
> >>R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> >>i386-pc-mingw32
> >>locale:
> >>LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> >>States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> >>States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 
> attached 
> >>base packages:
> >>[1] "splines"   "tools"     "stats"     "graphics"  
> "grDevices" "utils"
> >>[7] "datasets"  "methods"   "base"
> >>other attached packages:
> >>         XML    GOstats   Category 
> >> genefilter   survival       KEGG       RBGL
> >>     "1.6-0"    "2.0.4"    "2.0.3"   "1.12.0"     "2.30"   "1.14.1" 
> >>    "1.10.0"
> >>    annotate         GO      graph      limma       affy     affyio 
> >>     Biobase
> >>    "1.12.1"   "1.14.1"   "1.12.1"   "2.9.17"   "1.12.2"    "1.2.0" 
> >>    "1.12.2"
> >>  >
> >>
> >>Jenny Drnevich, Ph.D.
> >>Functional Genomics Bioinformatics Specialist W.M. Keck Center for 
> >>Comparative and Functional Genomics Roy J. Carver 
> Biotechnology Center 
> >>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 330 ERML
> >>1201 W. Gregory Dr.
> >>Urbana, IL 61801
> >>USA
> >>ph: 217-244-7355
> >>fax: 217-265-5066
> >>e-mail: drnevich at uiuc.edu
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> >
> >--
> >James W. MacDonald, M.S.
> >Biostatistician
> >Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
> >University of Michigan Cancer Center
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> >
> >
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> Jenny Drnevich, Ph.D.
> 
> Functional Genomics Bioinformatics Specialist
> W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics
> Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> 
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