Hi Carlo, "Colantuoni, Carlo (NIH/NIMH)" <colantuc@mail.nih.gov> writes: > Loading required package: XML > Error in library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, lib.loc = > lib.loc) : > 'XML' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0? > > is there a current working version of the XML package available for R 2.0.1 > (Win2000 in particular)? i have downloaded a few different versions that i > found in different places online, but have not succeeded in > installing any. Have you tried: install.packages("XML") The XML package for Windows is a bit of a special case it seems and is not available from all CRAN mirrors. > Also, the .pdf's for the AnnBuilder vignettes on bioconductor website give > me an error when trying to open them. not sure why. Thanks for reporting this. We are looking into this matter and hope to have it resolved shortly. > I was also wondering if the bioconductor guys are interested in adding > accessiblity to additional databases through AnnBuilder/annotate. One that > I'd really like to start to get data from is the HPRD > (http://www.hprd.org/). In particular, the protein-protein intereation data > would be very interesting to use. I think it would be of wide interest to > the gene expression comunity, too. Yes, there is interest in including additional databases in AnnBuilder or a very similar package and we have recently discussed protein-protein interaction data in particular. So... stay tuned. Best, + seth