[BioC] Installing bioconductor packages on leopard inside custom R

Shripad Sinari ssinari at tgen.org
Wed Mar 5 21:47:45 CET 2008


Thanks,

Using 

options(pkgType="source")

did the job.

Shripad

On 3/5/08 1:00 PM, "Max Kuhn" <mxkuhn at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has been discussed at length on [R-SIG-Mac] circa Feb.
> 
> See:
> 
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-February/004604.html
> 
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-February/004607.html
> 
> and the resulting discussion.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Shripad Sinari <ssinari at tgen.org> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>>  I have a 64-bit Mac and Leopard. I have compiled and installed R from
>>> source
>>>  with gcc 4.2 for architecture x86_64.
>>> 
>>>  * I would appreciate suggestions on installing bioconductor packages
>>> easily,
>>>  i.e., preferably not from source.
>>> 
>>>  Otherwise,
>>> 
>>>  * Can any one suggest, as how to download the sources for all available
>>>  packages from a repository?
>>> 
>>>  * Does any have a script to compile these in a batch and install?
>> 
>>  Take a look at the help for "available.packages".  You will also want
>>  to read the Bioconductor installation instructions on the bioconductor
>>  website.  You can use biocLite() to install packages and specify
>>  type='source'.
>> 
>>  Sean
>> 
>> 
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Shripad Sinari
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The Translation Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
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