[BioC] How to install biomaRt package on Windows XP

[Seth Falcon]

Hi Wuming,

On 31 Oct 2005, wuming.gong at gmail.com wrote:
> I found in bioconductor release information that biomaRt package is
> currently not available for Windows. Could anyone tell me whether
> there is a way to have current biomaRt source package installed on
> Windows XP, or the windows version of biomaRt will be released soon?
> I use R 2.2.0.

You might try contacting the package maintainer (see the DESCRIPTION
file inside the source package).  He has had success building Windows
binaries of the package by hand.  We have not, yet, had success
building the package as part of our automated build process.

Best,

+ seth