[BioC] error in getBioC("exprs")

[James W. MacDonald]

Robert Baertsch wrote:

> While you are at it, can you please allow people to install R without 
> being root?  Our sysadmin will install only RPMs and since 
> bioconductor has no RPMS, all of the R users need  to compile the 
> source for R.
>
> It is a real pain and many long time R users are frustrated by it.  
> What do you guys have to do something special? Every other unix app in 
> the world has an RPM.

There are RPMs for R. Please see http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux
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Jim

>
> RPM good.
> installation scripts bad.
>
> Get the picture.
>
> Jeff Gentry wrote:
>
>>> I've gotten this error a few times. Each time I rerun 
>>> getBioC("exprs") , it get past it and then it happens again.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yes ... I've gotten a rash of these reports, have not been able to
>> personally reproduce it.  Originally the first couple of people were 
>> using
>> Mac OS X, so thought it was a problem specific to that OS, but now 
>> have a
>> few people using Win32 and Unix machines.  I'm a bit baffled as everyone
>> is using release side stuff, and nothing should have changed there, but
>> clearly something is not right.  Will let folks know ASAP when I figure
>> something out.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -J
>>  
>>
>
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