Dear Martin, thanks a lot for your quick reply; I'll try out your suggestions. Best Christian Martin Morgan wrote: > On 05/31/2010 09:07 AM, Christian Kohler wrote: >> Dear Bioconductors, >> >> I tried to install the 'bovinebtentrezg.db' from the brainarray repository but I failed with the error shown below: >> >>> R CMD INSTALL bovinebtentrezg.db_12.1.0.tar.gz >> * installing *source* package 'bovinebtentrezg.db' ... >> ** R >> ** inst >> ** preparing package for lazy loading >> Loading required package: Biobase >> >> Welcome to Bioconductor >> >> Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type >> 'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see >> 'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'. >> >> Loading required package: DBI >> ** help >> *** installing help indices >> ** building package indices ... >> ** testing if installed package can be loaded >> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'bovinebtentrezg.db', details: >> call: checkDBSCHEMA(dbconn, "BOVINECHIP_DB") >> error: invalid DB schema version (found 2.0, expected 2.1) >> ERROR: loading failed >> * removing '../data/bovinebtentrezg.db' >> > > Generally, this error indicates an incompatibility between package > versions, and one would update packages as described at > > http://bioconductor.org/docs/install/ > > and then follow normal installation procedures > > > biocLite('bovinebtentrezg.db') > > In this case, I think the brainarray packages have not (yet) been > updated to the current version of R / Bioc, so the only solution > available is to use these packages with R-2.10 / BioC 2.5 (using > biocLite from within R-2.10). > > Martin > >> Here is my sessionInfo()-Output: >> ============================== >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) >> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu >> >> locale: >> [1] C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] AnnotationDbi_1.10.1 Biobase_2.8.0 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] DBI_0.2-5 RSQLite_0.8-4 >> >> >> >> I crawled Google and the Bioconductor mailing-list archive but unfortunately did not found a solution for my problem. >> Could you please give me a hint on how to proceed? >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Best Christian >> >> >> > > -- Christian Kohler Institute of Functional Genomics Computational Diagnostics University of Regensburg (BioPark I) D-93053 Regensburg (Germany) Tel. +49 941 943 5055 Fax +49 941 943 5020 christian.kohler at klinik.uni-regensburg.de