[BioC] error in getBioC("exprs")

[Robert Baertsch]

We have R installed with RPMs (by root), sorry for the confusion. My 
request was for a RPM install of bioconductor. I guess that is not possible.

When I tried to install bioconductor myself, I got a permission problem 
with /usr/lib since it is root owned.

Can someone tell my how to use the .libPath command to get around that?

Better yet, it would be nice if these incantations were on the 
bioconductor website.

-Robert

A.J. Rossini wrote:

>You can compile R without being root.  Why not just do that?
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>i.e. 
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>   unpack, then ./configure --prefix=/home/your/placement/directory
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>for example...
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>best,
>-tony
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>Robert Baertsch <baertsch at soe.ucsc.edu> writes:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>RPM good.
>>installation scripts bad.
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>>Get the picture.
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>>Jeff Gentry wrote:
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>>>>I've gotten this error a few times. Each time I rerun
>>>>getBioC("exprs") , it get past it and then it happens again.
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>>>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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