[BioC] affy won't load

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

This should not happen out of the box. Which R did you install (CRAN R  
or one from r.research.att.com or did you compile from scratch)? And  
what does options("pkgType") tell you (mac.binary I guess).

Kasper

On Jun 15, 2008, at 4:43 PM, jason smith wrote:

> Thanks Steve,
>
> I checked, and the files (affy and related) are installed on my  
> computer, however when I attempt to load them into R I get the error  
> mentioned previously (reminder below):
>
>>> 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'
>>>
>
> I'm not sure what is happening - all of the files are in the correct  
> folders on my hard drive, but for some reason library(affy) fails.  
> Will installing/enabling gettext address this?
>
> Best
> Jason
>
>
> --- On Sat, 6/14/08, Steve Lianoglou  
> <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
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