Hi, Thank you James, Installing RCurl package again solved the problem. Josh On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:25 PM, James W. MacDonald <jmacdon at="" med.umich.edu=""> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > The version of RCurl that you have seems to be really old to me. The version > used by BioC 2.3 is 0.92-0. You might try biocLite("RCurl"), or better yet, > upgrade to R-2.8.0 and BioC 2.3. > > Best, > > Jim > > > > T Joshi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I was running the example in getBM and got the following error: >> >> >> getBM(attributes=c("affy_hg_u95av2","hgnc_symbol","chromosome_name" ,"band"),filters="affy_hg_u95av2",values=c("1939_at","1503_at","1454_a t"), >> mart=mart) >> Error in getBM(attributes = c("affy_hg_u95av2", "hgnc_symbol", >> "chromosome_name", : >> could not find function "postForm" >> >> Here is the sessionInfo: >>> >>> sessionInfo() >> >> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) >> ia64-unknown-linux-gnu >> attached base packages: >> [1] splines tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets >> [8] methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] GOstats_2.6.0 Category_2.6.0 genefilter_1.20.1 >> [4] survival_2.34-1 RBGL_1.18.0 annotate_1.18.0 >> [7] xtable_1.5-4 GO.db_2.2.0 AnnotationDbi_1.2.2 >> [10] RSQLite_0.6-9 DBI_0.2-4 Biobase_2.0.1 >> [13] graph_1.18.1 biomaRt_1.14.1 RCurl_0.0.666 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] cluster_1.11.11 tcltk_2.7.1 XML_1.96-0 >> >> I also tried with some other data, but it doesn't seem to work anyway. >> I have attached the output of debug to this mail. Please let me know >> what's happening here. >> >> regards, >> Josh >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > -- > James W. MacDonald, M.S. > Biostatistician > Hildebrandt Lab > 8220D MSRB III > 1150 W. Medical Center Drive > Ann Arbor MI 48109-0646 > 734-936-8662 >