I was unable to install Biostrings using my R GUI (RKWard for Ubuntu), so this may help if anyone runs into the same problem as me ...
I was getting the error "Error in `row.names<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, value = aa) : duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed". This appeared to be a GUI specific error, so I ran R as root in the terminal ('sudo R') and then could install Biostrings with no problems: source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite("Biostrings") Then you can exit R and open up the GUI and use the package manager or script to install/upgrade phangorn and phytools as per normal. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/