[BioC] Mac binaries

[Byron Ellis]

If they're using the R GUI the Bioconductor Binary packages should be  
available directly from the "Package Installer..." sheet since AFAIK  
Stefano builds them along with the other CRAN packages. I'd check, but  
unfortunately my R GUI crashes (its a -devel branch version) when I try  
to get the list of packages.

In any case, you shouldn't need to get admin rights to install packages  
on OS X once the Developer Tools are installed. I have all my packages  
(including Bioconductor) in a user-local directory  
(~/Library/R/library). If I had been especially clever I suppose I  
would have made a special Bioconductor repository and installed the  
BioC packages there (IIRC getBioC.R asks where you want to put them. I  
usually build by hand, where you can use the '-l,--library' option to  
specify a binary location).


On Jan 18, 2005, at 5:57 PM, James Wettenhall wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a Windows/Linux user but have lots of biology clients who
> are Mac users.  They generally don't have the Developer Tools
> installed, so what is the best way for me to help them to
> install a package like "affy" which has C source code?  Does
> anyone provide Mac binaries for commonly used Bioconductor
> packages like affy upon each Release?  I can ask our I.T.
> administrator to upgrade R and the developer tools on a shared
> Mac machine so I can build R packages for Mac users (which I
> only do occasionally), but I'm wondering if there's an easier
> way?  Preferably not requiring admin privileges.
>
> I need affy, and would like affyPLM and gcrma also
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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