Have I done anything wrong, or something in the original code is broken?

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("DAPAR")
biocLite("Prostar")
library(DAPAR)
library(Prostar)
Prostar()

Listening on http://127.0.0.1:6064
Warning: Error in $: $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats4    parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices
[6] utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] imp4p_0.4           imputeLCMD_2.0     
 [3] impute_1.50.1       pcaMethods_1.68.0  
 [5] norm_1.0-9.5        tmvtnorm_1.4-10    
 [7] gmm_1.6-1           sandwich_2.4-0     
 [9] Matrix_1.2-11       mvtnorm_1.0-6      
[11] truncnorm_1.0-7     Iso_0.0-17         
[13] sm_2.2-5.4          openxlsx_4.0.17    
[15] MSnbase_2.2.0       ProtGenerics_1.8.0 
[17] BiocParallel_1.10.1 mzR_2.10.0         
[19] Rcpp_0.12.13        Biobase_2.36.2     
[21] BiocGenerics_0.22.1 DT_0.2             
[23] reshape2_1.4.2      highcharter_0.5.0  
[25] shinyAce_0.2.1      shinyjs_0.9.1      
[27] data.table_1.10.4-2 rhandsontable_0.3.4
[29] DAPARdata_1.4.0     shiny_1.0.5        
[31] Prostar_1.8.5       DAPAR_1.8.7 

Hi

this error was due to some updates in dependancy packages. The new version of DAPAR and Prostar (in Bioconductor 3.6) should work now.

Please let me know if all if ok

Sam