hi, I tried to install made4 package from http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/html/made4.html by downloading the package and installing from > biocLite("../../../dls/r/bioconductor_packages/made4_1.6.0.tar") Running getBioC version 0.1.8 with R version 2.3.1 Running biocinstall version 1.8.5 with R version 2.3.1 Your version of R requires version 1.8 of Bioconductor. dependency ''../../../dls/r/bioconductor_packages/made4_1.6.0.tar'' is not available but its dependency has been installed, proved by > library(scatterplot3d) > library(ade4) > so I am wondering if i missed something here? thanks. R version _ platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 3.1 year 2006 month 06 day 01 svn rev 38247 language R version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

"Weiwei Shi" <helprhelp at="" gmail.com=""> writes: > Actually, i need to copy that package.tar.gz into the current working > directory of R and run the following. > > it seems that biocLite does not accept "path" and only accepts the > package name. biocLite is _only_ a tool for _downloading_ packages from BioC package repositories and installing them. If you want to install packages stored on local disk, use install.packages.

On Friday 22 September 2006 15:01, Weiwei Shi wrote: > hi, > I tried to install made4 package from > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/html/made4.html Does: biocLite('made4') work? Sean