Absolutely true And the manual by Dr. Girke at <http: manuals.bioinformatics.ucr.edu="" home="" r_biocondmanual=""> is very helpful for novices (me) > From: Wolfgang Huber <whuber at="" embl.de=""> > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:58:22 +0200 > To: "Taylor, Katie" <kt70 at="" leicester.ac.uk=""> > Cc: "bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch" <bioconductor at="" stat.math.ethz.ch=""> > Subject: Re: [BioC] annotation of affymetrix microarray data > > > Dear Katie > > from the way you phrase your question I presume you have not yet had the > chance to familiarise yourself with the basics of R programming? > > If so, doing that would be a good starting point. It's worth the effort. > Without, you will not have much fun with Bioconductor. With a basic > knowledge of R, I am sure the examples in the vignettes (and in fact, > many other things in life) will start making more sense to you, and, > importantly, you will be able to modify the workflows explained in the > vignettes to match exactly your needs. > > Best wishes > Wolfgang > > > Taylor, Katie ha scritto: >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> I hope that this email finds you well. I am currently undertaking a PhD and I >> have performed some arrays on the illumina platforms. I have also downloaded >> some affymetrix data from GEO (GDS2609) which I have successfully analysed in >> bioconductor. I am new to bioconductor however and so I rely heavily on the >> worked examples given in the pdf documentation at bioconductor. I recently >> tried to use the annaffy package to annotate the data but I was unsuccessful. >> I have tried to use the script that is given as an example in the annaffy pdf >> but it won't work on my data set. I am sure that it is probably something >> that I am doing wrong. Instead of entering >> >>> data(aafExpr) >> >> I entered: >> >>> data(GDS2609) >> >> as this is the name of the file that I want to open. I can get individual >> symbols but not a list or table. I tried emailing the person who wrote the >> annaffy pdf but he advised me to email the bioconductor emailing list - I >> hope I am emailing the correct place. If you could give me any advice I would >> be really grateful. I am trying to annotate the GDS2609 dataset and I'm >> hoping that you will be able to help me. I appreciate any help that you can >> offer me. >> >> Thank you and best wishes, >> >> Katie >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- > > > Wolfgang Huber > EMBL > http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber > > _______________________________________________ > 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