Message-ID: <m2ll1iqtto.fsf@macaroni.local>
Date: 2005-09-27T17:55:15Z
From: Seth Falcon
Subject: [Bioc-devel] affy's cleancdfname
In-Reply-To: <542447D0-CE6C-4E48-B827-D71CBE5E7BFE@stat.berkeley.edu> (Kasper Daniel Hansen's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:44:22 -0700")
Kasper,
On 27 Sep 2005, khansen at stat.berkeley.edu wrote:
> When you are looking into all of this, I would like to have an easy
> way to set the cdf slot so the download process do not start, eg.
> setting it to "unknown". This could be quite relevant for people
> (like me) who needs to be able to read the cel files but do not have
> (and possibly will not get) a cdf environment. And right now (ok as
> far as I recall), even the show method on an AffyBatch object starts
> the entire existence checking/download etc. routine.
This would have been good to raise as a feature request a few weeks
ago ;-)
Can you please take a look at the vignettes in affy and confirm that
there is not already a documented way to do this. I was looking
through the vignette yesterday and seem to recall something about
turning off auto-downloading.
+ seth