Affy old package installation in R

Question

[jk]

Hello Experts,

I need to install an Old package of Affy in R.

I have installed affy using following commands below: source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite("affy")

This installed affy 1.48.1 version... I need 1.36.1, is it possible to install an older version?

Regards, JK

Answer 1

[deepue]

Try installing the older version of Bioconductor using

install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos="http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc")

follwed by installing the affy package.

[biocyberman]

This approach seems cleaner and easier, IF it works. In an odd case of version incompatibilities, the full installation starting from the correct R version is a way to go.

Answer 2

[biocyberman]

That requires some experience with R, bioconductor and lot of patience. Still it does not guaranty you will succeed. That's said, here is somebody asking the same question: https://support.bioconductor.org/p/78304/ and the answer:

Install R-2.15 and then use the normal way (biocLite()) to install packages, the correct versions will be installed.