Thanks for the reply. I would be delighted to know when you come up with the solution. Regards, mushtaq ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Gentry" <jgentry@jimmy.harvard.edu> To: "Dr Mushtaq Ahmed" <mushtaq@persistent.co.in> Cc: <bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [BioC] Error in loading bioconductor packages in Rterm and ESS+XEmacs modes > > I am using the latest Bioconductor developement version on Windows. > > The command library(affy) works fine from the R GUI. > > But I am not able to import any packages (e.g. affy) when I use the > > ESS+XEmacs or simply Rterm shell mode. I get the following error: > > I think that it may be due to some extra work the package upload > > routine tries to do like adding "Vignettes" menu to the GUI and fails to > > do so in the Rterm mode. > > It appears that the package widgetTools (which is called by affy) tries to > check if it is under GUI mode or not before adding a Vignette tab to the > GUI menubar. However, the current check that it is using is > if(interactive), which is still TRUE even in Rterm. We're looking at > finding a mechanism to detect if it is inded Rgui instead of Rterm ... > > -J >