[Bioc-devel] error message upon installing easyRNASeq

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Steve Lianoglou
<mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm having a hard time parsing this error of yours:
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Richard Friedman
> <friedman at cancercenter.columbia.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
>> Loading required package: bitops
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>   unable to load shared object
>> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.16/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so':
>>
>> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.16/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so,
>> 6): Library not loaded:
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/lib/libR.dylib
>>   Referenced from:
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.16/Resources/library/RCurl/libs/x86_64/RCurl.so
>>   Reason: image not found
>> Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘RCurl’
>
> Why am I seeing something about version 2.15 in there?
>
> Out of curiosity, what is the output of `.libPaths()` when you're running 2.16?
>

It looks like the binary version of RCurl was built using R 2.15.1 and
not R-devel.

You can get around this by installing RCurl from source:
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("RCurl", type="source")

This may require that you have Xcode installed.

Dan


> -steve
>
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