Greetings,
this is a follow-up to the mailing below. Seth Falcon replied and indicated
that he and several others were unable to replicate the problem.
Specifically he requested:
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We are not able to reproduce this issue. If you reinstall the
annotation packages does the error reappear?
If so, an exact transcript of the commands entered, their output, and
the output of traceback() right after the error would be helpful ---
and it would be best to move the discussion to the bioconductor list.
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The answers are: Yes, the problem is reproducible. I did a complete
reinstall of R and bioconductor end everything worked fine until I installed
an annotation package.