How can I install an older version of affy in order to install CellNet?

Question

[tannaz]

I have this problem with installing CellNet. I keep having this eror:

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Error in loadNamespace(i, c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[i]]) : namespace ‘affy’ 1.54.0 is being loaded, but <= 1.36.1 is required ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘cellnetr’

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so I tried to install affy 1.36.1 yet there is another error like below:

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Error : object ‘@<-’ is not exported by 'namespace:methods' ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘affy’

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what can I do?

p.s I have R 3.4.0 installed.

Answer 1

[Santosh Anand]

Install a new version of R locally, with the right version of BioConductor ( https://www.bioconductor.org/help/search/index.html?q=affy/ ), which has got the right version affy

[tannaz]

I installed BioConductor 2.11 (hopefully the right one!) with this command:

install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos="http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc")

after that I install affy but it was 1.38.1 instead of 1.36.1!!

[Santosh Anand]

Hmmmm... Either move to lower version of BioC or install from source, after dloading the affy source from https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc/src/contrib/affy_1.36.1.tar.gz

install.packages(path_to_file, repos = NULL, type="source")

[tannaz]

I've already tried this. I got this error:

installing to /home/tannaz/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/affy/libs * R * data * demo * inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Error : object ‘@<-’ is not exported by 'namespace:methods' ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘affy’ * removing ‘/home/tannaz/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/affy’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘/home/tannaz/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/affy_1.36.1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

[Santosh Anand]

Could you also check your version of BioC.

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

affy 1.38.1 is default for BioC 2.12!

[Santosh Anand]

Your BioC install method is not correct. First you need to install the corresponding version of R, then use

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

This will get the right version of BioC.

You may also try installing right version of affy by src https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc/src/contrib/affy_1.36.1.tar.gz

install.packages(path_to_file, repos = NULL, type="source")

However, I am afraid that there is something changed in the Base R, that is why you are getting this error [ object ‘@<-’ is not exported by 'namespace:methods' ]. So your last and only solution might be the re installation of a lower version of R locally

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/149451/install-r-in-my-own-directory

[tannaz]

Aha got it. Thanks a lot.

[tannaz]

yeah! you're right! it seems BioC 2.12 is installed! but this is the command that I used and as you see I typed "2.11" !!

install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos="http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc")