Hi. I am a student and I am currently learning about microarray analysis. I tried to install genefilter package on my Ubuntu OS, but run into the following problem. Input: > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > biocLite("genefilter") Error message: The downloaded source packages are in ‘/tmp/RtmpUU7GsP/downloaded_packages’ Warning message: installed directory not writable, cannot update packages 'boot', 'cluster', 'mgcv', 'spatial' I have tried to google for this error message, but I wasn't able to find anything useful. Would appreciate if someone could advise me on how to rectify this issue. Thank you. Yours faithfully Kee Pang _________________________________ CONFIDENTIAL NOTE: The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying document may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, kindly inform the sender and delete the mail. Thank you. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Kee Pang SOH <soh.kee.pang at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > Hi. > > I am a student and I am currently learning about microarray analysis. I > tried to install genefilter package on my Ubuntu OS, but run into the > following problem. > > Input: >> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") >> biocLite("genefilter") > > Error message: > The downloaded source packages are in > ?/tmp/RtmpUU7GsP/downloaded_packages? > Warning message: > installed directory not writable, cannot update packages 'boot', 'cluster', > 'mgcv', 'spatial' > > This is just a warning message. It means that these packages were previously installed (probably by an administrator) in a directory you don't have permission to write to. Seems like genefilter installed successfully. Dan > I have tried to google for this error message, but I wasn't able to find > anything useful. Would appreciate if someone could advise me on how to rectify > this issue. > > Thank you. > > > Yours faithfully > Kee Pang > > _________________________________ > CONFIDENTIAL NOTE: The information contained in this e-mail and any > accompanying document may contain information that is privileged, > confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the > intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed > to you in error, kindly inform the sender and delete the mail. Thank you. > > [[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