---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Question From: jcurry@vbi.vt.edu Date: Wed, July 21, 2004 2:57 pm To: bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: trudy@vbi.vt.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Hello, I am using soychip data for R which unlike human etc is not publicly available so it is not available in the metadata on bioconductor. > > I have it on my desktop, sent directly from affy. > Being on the desktop, I thought that meant the cdf files were available, BUT > When I am attempting to read the data for the soybean file, I type in eset <- rma (Data) and the error reads this: > ?Error in getCdfInfo(object) : Could not obtain CDF environment, problems encountered: > Specified environment specified did not contain Soybean > Library - package soybeancdf not installed > Data for package affy did not contain Soybean > Bioconductor - soybeancdf not available? > > The soybeancdf has been installed into the affy library but it is not on Bioconductor?s website of packages available to download. Is this why it will not open? > > Any suggestions as to what I should do to rectify this problem? Thank you. Joyce Curry Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech Bioinformatics 1 Washington Street Blacksburg, VA 24061-0447