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Annotation metadata "kills" help.search

4 messages · Gerard Tromp, Gabor Grothendieck, Seth Falcon

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Greetings!

OS: Windows
R 2.0.1

Before anyone flames -- I tried to query this on the R searchable web site
and using google and did not find anything applicable.

As of about a week ago the help.search function dies when used in the simple
help.search("something") usage.
The error is
Error in rbind(...) : number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 203)

After some effort I have traced it down to the annotation packages. I
installed
GO, KEGG, mgu74[abc]v2 and hgu133plus2 all version 1.7.0

When I move these out of the library directory, help.search() functions
correctly again.

I have not tracked it any further -- just wanted to know if anyone else had
noticed it.


Gerard Tromp
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This happened to me in R 2.1.0 (I forget which specific version
since I now have March 27th) on Windows XP which I traced to
package dataRep.  Once I removed that package help.search 
worked again.


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:08:58 -0500, Gerard Tromp
<gerard.tromp at sanger.med.wayne.edu> wrote:
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Hi Gerard,

"Gerard Tromp" <gerard.tromp at sanger.med.wayne.edu> writes:
We (the Bioconductor team) will look into this and see if we can
reproduce what you are reporting.  This is the first we've heard of
difficulties with the help system caused by the annotation data
packages.

+ seth
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Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> writes:
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. 

+ seth