On Tue, 18-Dec-2007 at 11:21AM -0500, James W. MacDonald wrote: |> Duncan Murdoch wrote: |> > Yes, I agree. (As an aside, there's actually a capital S in |> > smoothScatter(), and it's a bit of a pain to install, because |> > geneplotter depends on something that depends on DBI, which is not so |> > easily available these days.) |> |> Somehow I always forget the capital S and wonder if I have loaded the |> correct package ;-D Maybe you're misled from the output when the package is installed: >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'geneplotter' Formats: text html latex example GetColor text html latex example Makesense text html latex example alongChrom text html latex example amplicon.plot text html latex example cColor text html latex example [...] multiecdf text html latex example openHtmlPage text html latex example panel.smoothScatter text html latex example plotChr text html latex example plotExpressionGraph text html latex example savepng text html latex example smoothscatter text html latex example ** building package indices ... * DONE (geneplotter) Notice that the panel function has a capital S in its name but not the basic function. Does that point to a slight bug somewhere? Could it produce a more serious problem? |> |> As for installing the required dependencies, I believe this is actually |> quite straightforward: |> |> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") |> biocLite("geneplotter") |> |> Should install geneplotter and all required dependencies. That was about as easy as it would be possible to make it. Thank you for that. best -- ************************************************************* ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} HortResearch Great minds discuss ideas; _( Y )_ Mt Albert Average minds discuss events; (:_~*~_:) Auckland Small minds discuss people. (_)-(_) New Zealand .... Anon Ph: +64-9 815 4200 x 7188