[Bioc-devel] .First.lib error in beadarray

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Fri Sep 15 17:12:08 CEST 2006


Hi Mark,

Sorry for the delay in response.

Mark Dunning <md392 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if this is a basic question, but I am seeing the following  
> error in the 1.9 Check  report for beadarray on Solaris
>
> Error: .First.lib failed for 'beadarray'
> Call sequence:
> 2: stop(gettextf(".First.lib failed for '%s'", libraryPkgName(package)),
>         domain = NA)
> 1: library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, verbose  
> = FALSE)
> Execution halted
> See section 'Generic functions and methods' of the 'Writing R  
> Extensions'
> manual.
>
> Full details are here:
> http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/1.9/churchill-beadarray- 
> checksrc.html
>
> I'm quite new to development, so unfortunately this message means  
> little to me and it's quite puzzling that it appears on Solaris and  
> no other machines? Would someone be able to give some pointers how to  
> go about fixing the error?

The Solaris machine does not yet have up-to-date version of R alpha.
Let's ignore this until it does and go from there.

But thank you for keeping an eye on the check report of your package
and posting questions.  


+ seth



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