I'm attempting to install the virtualArray package, but am receiving the error that it is unavailable in the most current R version. Below is the message and the output from sessionInfo().
> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.16.0), ?biocLite for help
> biocLite("virtualArray")
BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
Using Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.16.0), R version 3.1.1.
Installing package(s) 'virtualArray'
Warning message:
package ‘virtualArray’ is not available (for R version 3.1.1)
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.16.0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.1.1
>
Thank you,
Rebekah
Any idea why that is? Any alternatives you know of?
The package did not build, the maintainer did not respond to repeated requests to fix it, therefore it was dropped from the release. Someone else can perhaps answer about alternatives.
See this thread for a discussion of alternatives:
A: virtualArray error when trying to run the vignette example