[BioC] recipe for installing and using Bioconductor with Mac OS X 10.3 and R GUI 1.9

[Floor Stam]

...and make sure you have the Xtools installed. Affy and some other 
packages like xml do not install without them.

floor


> Dear Colleagues --
>
> I've been trying unsuccessfully to use Bioconductor (mostly the affy 
> package) on a Mac with OS X 10.3.3, running R with a GUI, either 1.8.1 
> or 1.9.0 beta. I've tried to install Bioconductor with getBioC.R, 
> which doesn't work all the way, and also tried to use a shell command 
> to install downloaded packages, a la R CMD INSTALL 
> /path/to/pkg_version.tar.gz , which also doesn't work all the way 
> (stops when it can't find a 'make' command in SHLIB.
>
> Suggestions? Caveats? Will this work? Shall I give up and 'switch' 
> back to a PC???
>
> Cheers & TIA,
> Marc Salit
>
> -- 
> Dr. Marc Salit
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> NIST
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