[BioC] affy won't load

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Jun 14, 2008, at 9:22 PM, jason smith wrote:

<snip to problem>

> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>  unable to load shared library '/Users/sjorges2002/Library/R/2.7/ 
> library/affy/libs/i386/affy.so':
>  dlopen(/Users/sjorges2002/Library/R/2.7/library/affy/libs/i386/ 
> affy.so, 6): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libintl.3.dylib
>  Referenced from: /Users/sjorges2002/Library/R/2.7/library/affy/libs/ 
> i386/affy.so
>  Reason: image not found
> Error in library(affy) : .First.lib failed for 'affy'
>
> What can I do to fix this?

I checked to see if I had that file and I did, so I wondered how the  
heck it got there.

According to the tutorial below (and other hints from google), it  
seems to come from the installation of gettext, although I'm not sure  
where mine came from since I don't remember explicitly installing it.

http://www.kenior.com/macintosh/adding-gettext-extension-for-mac-os-x-leopard

You can follow along with that link (up to step 2), but probably your  
standard ./configure / make / make install dance should do just fine.

You can get gettext here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.17.tar.gz

HTH,
-steve