Dr. Gentleman - Sorry that my description of the problem was incomplete. However, you correctly diagnosed my problem. Yes, back in January I had written a "get" function while studying for a statistics exam, and had completely forgotten about this (pretty embarrassing the more I think about it). I removed that function, and now the installation script is able to run smoothly. I am very grateful for the time you took to assist me, and will try to be a better mailing list citizen in the future. David. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Gentleman [mailto:rgentlem@fhcrc.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:50 PM To: David Millis Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [BioC] problem installing Bioconductor It looks like you might have defined your own function get (or someone else did). You could find out using something like find: eg > find("get") [1] "package:base" > get = function(x) x > find("get") [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:base" > Notice I defined one - and now I get: > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") Error in get(objname, inherits = FALSE) : unused argument(s) (inherits = FALSE) removing my version of get makes this work again. So perhaps you are restoring a saved R session when you start, or something like that. Anyway, please read the posting guide and try to follow the directions there, which ask for more details than you have provided - then the rest of us have to guess less. thanks Robert David Millis wrote: > I have installed R 2.9.1 in Windows Vista. I am trying to install > Bioconductor using the install script on the Bioconductor web site: > >> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > > > > However, I get an error message: > > "Error in get(objname, inherits = FALSE) : > > Unused argument(s) (inherits = FALSE)" > > > > I got the same error message using R 2.7.0. I have not had other problems > using R 2.7.0 or R 2.9.1 in Vista. > > > > Can anyone help explain what I might be doing wrong? > > > > Thanks - > > David Millis. > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Robert Gentleman, PhD Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 PO Box 19024 Seattle, Washington 98109-1024 206-667-7700 rgentlem at fhcrc.org