Goodday, After installing Biobase I tried openVignette() and citation() but with the error messages following below. R 2.12.1 and Biobase_2.10.0.zip were used. > library(Biobase) Welcome to Bioconductor Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type 'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see 'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'. Attaching package: 'Biobase' The following object(s) are masked from 'package:Hmisc': combine, contents > search() [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:Biobase" "package:grDevices" "package:datasets" "package:svSocket" "package:TinnR" "package:R2HTML" "package:Hmisc" "package:survival" "package:splines" [11] "package:graphics" "package:stats" "package:tcltk" "package:utils" "package:methods" "TempEnv" "Autoloads" "package:base" > openVignette(Biobase) Error in getPkgVigs(package) : object 'Biobase' not found > openVignette(base) Error in getPkgVigs(package) : object 'base' not found > citation(Biobase) Error in system.file(package = package, lib.loc = lib.loc) : object 'Biobase' not found > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Louis Peperzak <louispeperzak@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Goodday, > > After installing Biobase I tried openVignette() and citation() but with the > error messages following below. > R 2.12.1 and Biobase_2.10.0.zip were used. > > > library(Biobase) > Welcome to Bioconductor > Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type > 'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see > 'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'. > > Attaching package: 'Biobase' > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:Hmisc': > combine, contents > > search() > [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:Biobase" "package:grDevices" > "package:datasets" "package:svSocket" "package:TinnR" "package:R2HTML" > "package:Hmisc" "package:survival" "package:splines" > [11] "package:graphics" "package:stats" "package:tcltk" > "package:utils" "package:methods" "TempEnv" "Autoloads" > "package:base" > > openVignette(Biobase) > Error in getPkgVigs(package) : object 'Biobase' not found > > openVignette(base) > Error in getPkgVigs(package) : object 'base' not found > > citation(Biobase) > Error in system.file(package = package, lib.loc = lib.loc) : > object 'Biobase' not found > > > The commands should be: citation("Biobase") and citation(package="Biobase") In the first case, you forgot the quotes, and in the second, we gave an incorrect example for citing a package. We'll fix that. Dan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

The error messages are exactly correct. you can use openVignette() with no argument, and pass a quoted string to citation, e.g., citation("Biobase") On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Louis Peperzak <louispeperzak at="" hotmail.com=""> wrote: > > Goodday, > > After installing Biobase I tried openVignette() and citation() but with the error messages following below. > R 2.12.1 and Biobase_2.10.0.zip were used. > >> library(Biobase) > Welcome to Bioconductor > ?Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type > ?'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see > ?'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'. > > Attaching package: 'Biobase' > The following object(s) are masked from 'package:Hmisc': > ? ?combine, contents >> search() > ?[1] ".GlobalEnv" ? ? ? ?"package:Biobase" ? "package:grDevices" "package:datasets" ?"package:svSocket" ?"package:TinnR" ? ? "package:R2HTML" ? ?"package:Hmisc" ? ? "package:survival" ?"package:splines" > [11] "package:graphics" ?"package:stats" ? ? "package:tcltk" ? ? "package:utils" ? ? "package:methods" ? "TempEnv" ? ? ? ? ? "Autoloads" ? ? ? ? "package:base" >> openVignette(Biobase) > Error in getPkgVigs(package) : object 'Biobase' not found >> openVignette(base) > Error in getPkgVigs(package) : object 'base' not found >> citation(Biobase) > Error in system.file(package = package, lib.loc = lib.loc) : > ?object 'Biobase' not found >> > > ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >