Hi, I've been trying to load the default Bioconductor package onto my unix directory (I'm using putty as my windowing system for the moment, my Xwin is temporarily down). Using the getBioC script, I can get all of the packages besides "affy". Instead, I get the following message: [1] "Attempting to download affy from http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.3/package/Source" [1] "Download complete." [1] "Installing affy" sh: /home/tnayar/local/lib/R/bin/R: bad interpreter: Permission denied >From URL: http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.3/package/Source affy version 1.3.28 with the following warning messages: Warning messages: 1: 'package.description' is deprecated. Use 'packageDescription' instead. See help("Deprecated") 2: Installation of package affy had non-zero exit status in: installPkg(fileName, pkg, pkgVer, type, lib, repEntry, versForce) Alternatively, when I try using a friend's "affy" package copied into my "library" directory, I get the following message: Error: package affy was built for i386-pc-mingw32 Any idea what's going on? Thanks, Tarun [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

> sh: /home/tnayar/local/lib/R/bin/R: bad interpreter: Permission denied This most likely means that the shell that 'INSTALL' is trying to access doesn't exist or has incorrect perms. But 'INSTALL' is using /bin/sh, which I'd be extremely surprised if that actually is the culprit. Perhaps one of the perl calls along the way? What is the result of 'which sh' at your unix prompt?