Hi, I tried to download Bioconductor by typing the following commands (I'm using R2.1.1): > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") > getBioC() When I type the second command I get the following error: Loading required package: utils Error: require("utils") is not TRUE In addition: Warning message: There is no package called 'utils' in: library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, >warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, I'm using a Redhat linux machine. I looked through the mail archives and FAQ but couldn't find anything to solve this matter. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sonia

Hi Sonia, On 13 Jul 2005, sonia.shah at cs.ucl.ac.uk wrote: > I tried to download Bioconductor by typing the following commands > (I'm using R2.1.1): > >> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") >> getBioC() > > When I type the second command I get the following error: > > Loading required package: utils Error: require("utils") is not TRUE > In addition: Warning message: There is no package called 'utils' in: > library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, > >warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, The utils package is among the default set of packages that comes with R. If library("utils") gives you an error message, then your R installation is not right. How did you install R? + seth

Hi Sonia, It seems that you don't have the required package in your R. Try to install "utils" before install BioC. You can do so by > install.packages("utils") HTH, Ting-Yuan Quoting Sonia SHAH <sonia.shah at="" cs.ucl.ac.uk="">: > Hi, > > I tried to download Bioconductor by typing the following commands (I'm > using R2.1.1): > > > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") > > getBioC() > > When I type the second command I get the following error: > > Loading required package: utils > Error: require("utils") is not TRUE > In addition: Warning message: > There is no package called 'utils' in: library(package, character.only = > TRUE, logical = TRUE, >warn.conflicts = warn.conflicts, > > > I'm using a Redhat linux machine. I looked through the mail archives and > FAQ but couldn't find anything to solve this matter. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Sonia > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >

On 15 Jul 2005, tliu at fhcrc.org wrote: > You can do so by > >> install.packages("utils") Actually, that will mostly likely not work. The utils package comes with R and if it is missing it means your installation is not valid (see my earlier post to this). + seth