[Bioc-devel] GLAD fails to load on R v2.10.0 and Windows Vista

[Henrik Bengtsson]

That's good enough for me, but I think you'll loose quite a few people
that way. Call it survival of the fittest/least lazy/....   My point
was that, do you really want to break your existing GLAD because of
the support of HaarSeg?  Isn't there a smoother workaround that will
make the package load, but if GSL is not available, it will give an
error if it is not available.  One immediate solution that should work
is to have the HaarSeg native code/dyn lib in an optional support
package loaded optionally via require().  I leave it there...

My (now) $.04

/H

2009/6/16 Philippe Hupé <Philippe.Hupe at curie.fr>:
> Hi Henrik and Patrick,
>
>
> Thank you for pointing out the problem with GLAD under Windows.
> I have now added a note in the DESCRIPTION file which refers to a README in
> the inst directory. Is is based on the README provided in the flowClust
> package.
> Now users have all the information to set up their environnment under
> Windows to get GLAD work on their computer.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Philippe
>
>
> Henrik Bengtsson a écrit :
>
> Thanks Patrick. Future followers will now find this thread/answer
> (because I'll be getting these question from aroma.affymetrix users
> later).
>
> Philippe (cc:ed), it looks like this GSL dependency is only related to
> your HaarSeg code snippets; maybe there is a way to avoid requiring
> GSL if a user is not using that branch of the GLAD package?
>
> My $.02
>
> /Henrik
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Patrick Aboyoun<paboyoun at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>
>
> Henrik,
> This is more of a package maintainer documentation issue. The DESCRIPTION
> file for GLAD
>
> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/GLAD/DESCRIPTION
>
> states there is a system requirement of GSL (GNU Scientific Library:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl), but it doesn't state how to satisfy the
> requirement. If you download GSL and put the location of libgsl.dll in the
> Windows PATH environment variable, GLAD should load in R 2.10 without issue.
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
>
> FYI,
>
>
>
>
> library("GLAD")
>
>
>
> DIALOG: "This application has failed to start because libgsl.dll was not
> found.
> Re-install the application may fix this problem. [OK]"
>
> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>  unable to load shared library
> 'C:/Users/hb/R/win-library/2.10/GLAD/libs/GLAD.d
> ll':
>  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified module could not be found.
>
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'GLAD'
>
>
>
>
> sessionInfo()
>
>
>
> R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-06-10 r48749)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
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