[BioC] error in getBioC("exprs")

Robert Baertsch baertsch at soe.ucsc.edu
Tue Aug 24 22:34:08 CEST 2004


thanks Ben,

export R_LIBS sounds like a good solution. I will try it.

Ben Bolstad wrote:

>You can download pre-compiled .rpm for R from CRAN eg.
>
>http://www.cran.mirrors.pair.com/bin/linux/
>
>You should also note that not everybody in the world uses an RPM based
>Linux distribution. 
>
>As for installing BioC as a non root user. Try setting the R_LIBS
>environment variable  eg for bash
>
>export R_LIBS=/home/myaccount/MyRpacks
>
>thanks,
>
>Ben
>
>
>
>On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:10, 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.
>>
>>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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