[BioC] Bioconductor 2.3 Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 binary packages are available

[Patrick Aboyoun]

Steve,
All packages that are posted for the Mac OS X 10.5 support execution in 
i386 (32-bit), ppc (32-bit), and x86_64 (64-bit) modes.


Patrick


Steve Lianoglou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
>
>> For the first time ever, Bioconductor is available on both Mac OS X 
>> 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). These packages can be 
>> downloaded using biocLite in the standard fashion. For example to 
>> obtain the Biobase package from within R:
>>
>>   source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>   biocLite("Biobase")
>>
>> You can also access these packages from the bioconductor website, 
>> where package downloads are now supplied in four forms:  source 
>> package, Windows binary package, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) binary 
>> package, and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) binary package.
>>
>> http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Biobase.html
>>
>> Some of these binary packages assume you have made additional 
>> installations, like Graphviz, on your machine. For more information 
>> on these additional installations see "R for Mac OS X Developer's 
>> Page" at http://r.research.att.com.
>
>
> That's great!
>
> Out of curiosity, is there anything we have to keep in mind with 32 vs 
> 64bit setups (since some packages have compiled c code(?))?
>
> Thanks,
> -steve
>
> -- 
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>
> http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
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