Message-ID: <7FC94B61-8DDA-4816-8063-25C33E47D634@comcast.net>
Date: 2016-12-31T00:20:26Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: help for
In-Reply-To: <242722337.3953531.1483120632122@mail.yahoo.com>
> On Dec 30, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Elham - via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
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> hi all, I am following http://bioinformatics.knowledgeblog.org/2011/06/20/analysing-microarray-data-in-bioconductor/
That page was designed by and for someone with Linux installation. To quote from the opening paragraph: "Some familiarity with Linux is ideal and the instructions were developed on Ubuntu 11.04, R 2.12.1. For a full code listing for this tutorial and figures resulting from it see the second part of the article."
> I need to download phenotypic data in the form of text file that describe chip names, and the source of the biological samples as well as probe that hybridised to them. I can not understand the mean of "Open a new terminal window and type".
> i am using command.$ ls data/*.CEL > data/phenodata.txt in R
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> this returns an error
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> $ ls data/*.CEL > data/phenodata.txt Error: unexpected '$' in "$"
> what should I do now?
It later runs out that you are on Windows? .... ???
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There is a help facility for BioC questions. (I think it might now be web-based unlike this mailing list which remains plain text.) I suggest you read the Posting Guide more thoroughly that it appears you have so far.
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA