[BioC] Rcurl 0.8-1 update for bioconductor 2.7

[Yan Zhou]

Patrick and Steve,

Thank you for all your kind help. I installed using source. It works fine.

yan

Patrick Aboyoun wrote:

> Steve and Yan,
> We just uploaded source, Windows binary, and MacOS X Tiger binary 
> packages for RCurl 0.9-3 to the Bioconductor CRAN-like repository 
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra. This repository is make 
> available when you use R 2.7.0 and type
>
> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite("RCurl")
>
> Let me know if this meets your needs.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
>
>
>
> Steve Lianoglou wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I'm seeking help here regarding updating the Rcurl for macOSX to a 
>>> newer version so it'll accomodate to bioconductor 2.7. The current 
>>> version of Rcurl 0.8-1 (in bioconductor 2.7 for macOSX) is built for 
>>> bioconductor 2.6; Is there anyone who could help to put the 
>>> bioconductor 2.7 compatible version of Rcurl into the database? So 
>>> we could use packages depending on Rcurl? Any kind help is greatly 
>>> appreciated!
>>
>>
>> When this was brought up earlier, I think the consensus was that 
>> since this isn't a bioconductor hosted package, you'd better inquire 
>> over at R-help.
>>
>> That said, someone also suggested earlier to install it straight from 
>> the source via this incantation:
>>
>> > install.packages("RCurl", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R")
>>
>> I don't think that worked for me, and I ended up d/ling the source 
>> package and installing it manually, by first d/ling it and 
>> uncompressing it. You'll get an RCurl folder. At the command line, 
>> you can then:
>>
>> $ R CMD BUILD RCurl
>> $ R CMD CHECK RCurl_0.9-3.tar.gz
>> $ R CMD INSTALL RCurl_0.9-3.tar.gz
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is the best way, but I seem to have a fully 
>> functioning RCurl again since the biomaRt package relies on that, and 
>> that works now.
>>
>> Btw - you can get RCurl here: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/
>>
>> HTH,
>> -steve
>>
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