[BioC] affy won't load

[jason smith]

Kasper,

Yes it is a standard system intel core 2 duo, MacBook 3,1; 2.2GHZ; 4GB RAM. xcode 3.0 installed. I did not install anything 'customized'. In R:

> options("pkgType")
$pkgType
[1] "mac.binary"

Here is the result of otool in terminal:
jason-smiths-macbook:~ sjorges2002$ otool -L affy.so
otool: can't open file: affy.so (No such file or directory)

But I can navigate to this file:
Users/sjorges2002/Library/R/2.7/library/affy/libs/i386/affy.so
affy.so is a 100KB Unix executable in i386

Vincent Carey said that they had to install Darwin ports, sudo ports, and gettext to fix this issue. However, since I am not a programmer/developer I don't have a C compiler or know how to use xcode to do this.

Thanks
Jason

I am at a bit of a loss here. My version of affy does not link against  
that library, but I am on ppc. Could you try to do the following from  
Terminal
# otool -L affy.so
(where you have navigated to the folder where affy.so is, see your  
output). Have you installed the developer tools? And the stuff you get  
when you click "customize" during the R installation? Still, that  
should not be necessary. And could you please check (in R) what the  
pkgType option is set to?