Note on versions of the package ‘princurve

 

New version of the package ‘princurve’ (version 2 and higher):

In the new version of the package ‘princurve’ (version 2 and higher), principal.curve was replaced by principal_curve. An adapted Pathifier code (1.20.0) for the new version of the package ‘princurvecan be found in Bioconductor.

 

Older versions of the package ‘princurve’ (lower than version 2):

Pathifier (1.19.0) can be found in Bioconductor

The original Pathifier code (1.19.0) is also used automatically inside the standalone version (see instructions below).

 

Using an older ‘princurve’ package manually:

After the extraction of the standalone package (see instructions below), the R packages used by the software are found in this folder: pathifier_app\R

If you would like to load the princurve package manually, type in R (make sure you are in the folder “pathifier_app”):

library('princurve',lib.loc="R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1")  #Linux

library('princurve',lib.loc="R/win-library/3.0") #Windows

(the script activated by the standalone software is “run.R”)