[BioC] Problem with Installing affylmGUI on MAC OS X

[James W. MacDonald]

Richard Friedman wrote:
> Dear Bioconductoir List,
> 
> 	I am having a problem installing affylmGUI in R 1.11 for Mac OSX (R  
> Framework 2.1)
> under mac OS X Version 10.3.9.
> 
>  > .libPaths()
> [1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"
>  >  
> install.packages("affylmGUI",contriburl="http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/ 
> affylmGUI", lib="/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library")
> trying URL 'http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/affylmGUI/affylmGUI_1.3.1.tgz'
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb") :
> 	cannot open URL  
> 'http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/affylmGUI/affylmGUI_1.3.1.tgz'
> In addition: Warning message:
> cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

This error is probably due to the fact that the correct url is

http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/affylmGUI/affylmGUI_1.3.1.tar.gz

Note that it is a .tar.gz, not .tgz file. I have no idea how to fix this 
from within R, but you could always download by hand and install.

HTH,

Jim


>  >
> Does this error message mean that the problem is with the remote-site  
> or with my configuration?
> 
> here is what happens when I try the install.packages pulldown:
> 
> trying URL 'http://www.bioconductor.org/bin/macosx/2.1/PACKAGES'
> Content type 'text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1' length 11959 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 11Kb
> 
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> Thanksand best wishes,
> Rich
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Richard A. Friedman, PhD
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