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I am trying to capture GSE60701 GEOquery and am running up against the following n message:
could not find function"get GEO
What does that mean? I used
gse <- getGEO(filename=system.file("extdata/GSE60701_family.soft.gz,package="GEOquery"))
and get that message.
Any thoughts?

Just run the code. But you shouldn't ever be calling system.file(). That is something people do in vignettes when they want to show how to do something that might only work 'normally' in an interactive session, or when there is an internet connection. So say you want GSE60701, for real.
> library(GEOquery) > z <- getGEO("GSE60701") ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE60nnn/GSE60701/matrix/ Found 1 file(s) GSE60701_series_matrix.txt.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 4302 100 4302 0 0 3026 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 3027 File stored at: /data3/tmp/Rtmp2k3GiT/GPL13112.soft > z[[1]] ExpressionSet (storageMode: lockedEnvironment) assayData: 0 features, 12 samples element names: exprs protocolData: none phenoData sampleNames: GSM1486081 GSM1486082 ... GSM1486092 (12 total) varLabels: title geo_accession ... supplementary_file_1 (42 total) varMetadata: labelDescription featureData: none experimentData: use 'experimentData(object)' Annotation: GPL13112And then you can do whatever analysis you might want. But do note that getGEO() returns a list, so depending on the GSE you download, you may get one or more list items. If that doesn't mean anything to you, then read 'An Introduction to R', because you will need it.