[BioC] Bioconductor installation on 64 bit R problem

[Sean Davis]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Octavio Espinosa
<o.espinosa at har.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to install Bioconductor on 64 bit R. The installation of some bioconductor packages fails with the errors below. I would be very grateful for any help on how to resolve the issue.
>

Hi, Octavio.  You need to post the output of sessionInfo() in order to
get any help.  Also, how did you install R?

Sean

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> Most of the bioconductor packages won't install, for examples 'Biobase'
> errors with:
>
> ** building package indices ...
> Loading required package: methods
> Error in dim(robj) <- c(dX, dY) :
>  dims [product 8] do not match the length of object [16]
> Calls: <Anonymous> ... list_files_with_type -> .make_file_exts -> switch
> -> outer
> Execution halted
> ERROR: installing package indices failed
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/Biobase'
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>        /tmp/RtmpHGbpND/downloaded_packages
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Warning message:
> In install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies =
> dependencies,  :
>  installation of package 'Biobase' had non-zero exit status
>
>
> It looks like it doesn't work with 64bit stuff (the byte lengths
> mismatch)
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