[BioC] problems with bioconductor installation
Wolfgang Huber
whuber at embl.de
Tue Feb 16 20:08:21 CET 2010
Dear Pete
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I am stuck running R version 2.9 due to
> my OS.
Not true. I (and many others) are running Ubuntu 9.10, and on that R
2.10 (the latest release) as well as the current devel (what will be 2.11).
Generic installation instructions are in the R FAQ, section 2.5.1:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html
You will need to install necessary compilers, latex, gnumake etc (which
is anyway a good investment in the value of your computer.)
For Ubuntu, you might also want to look at this:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
Best wishes
Wolfgang
I was able to get Bioconductor to work with this version of R by
> doing a "old.packages(repos=biocinstallRepos())" and
> "update.packages(repos=biocinstallRepos(), ask=FALSE)" now I am running
> Bioconductor 2.4 and it works fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> peter
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Lakshmanan Iyer <laxvid at gmail.com
> <mailto:laxvid at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi
> In a terminal window, try:
>
> sudo apt-get install curl
> sudo apt-get install Rcurl
>
> One of these should work. BTW, you would need the "admin" password for
> this sudo.
> -best
> -Lax
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Wolfgang Huber <whuber at embl.de
> <mailto:whuber at embl.de>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Pete
> >
> > you will need to install libcurl-dev:
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libcurl-dev
> >
> > This is a system dependency of the RCurl package, which in turn
> is required by the biomaRt package. The biocLite script cannot
> automatically deal with such system dependencies for all the various
> platforms that Bioconductor supports (Windows, Macs, Unices). I
> guess it would be technically possible, but would eat up so many
> resources (programmer time) that the project is better off investing
> in scientifically more rewarding functionalities.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Wolfgang
> >
> >
> > Il giorno Feb 15, 2010, alle ore 6:46 PM, Andreia Fonseca ha scritto:
> >
> > Hi Pete,
> >
> > you have to install the curl library in your ubuntu. Go to
> sinaptic and look
> > for the curls libs and then install. Then you'll see problem
> solved. The
> > other problem, is not a problem is just a warning message, like
> Martin said.
> > Cheers
> > Andreia
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Martin Morgan
> <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org <mailto:mtmorgan at fhcrc.org>> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Pete --
> >>
> >> On 02/14/2010 01:53 PM, Pete Shepard wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I am running Ubuntu 9.10, I used Synaptic to download R version
> 2.9.2. I
> >> am
> >>> trying to download Bioconductor 2.5 using a R command using these
> >>
> >> R 2.9.2 is compatible with Bioconductor 2.4. Use R 2.10.1 if you
> need
> >> Bioconductor 2.5.
> >>
> >>> instructions http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/install/. When I
> enter
> >>> biocLite(), I get "argument 'lib' is missing: using
> >>> '/home/pedro/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9" an error I never
> >> encountered
> >>> in past ubuntu versions. After the packages finish installing,
> it says
> >> they
> >>> are in a temp file Œ/tmp/RtmprtEjox/downloaded_packages‚ and
> that there
> >> were
> >>
> >> Both the warning about "argument 'lib' missing" and the
> statement that
> >> the downloaded packages are in a temp file are standard output
> and are
> >> meant to be informative rather than alarming; see
> ?install.packages for
> >> what 'lib' is referring to.
> >>
> >>> a couple of Warning messages:
> >>>
> >>> Warning messages:
> >>> 1: In install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies =
> >>> dependencies, :
> >>> installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status
> >>
> >> likely further up in the installation RCurl fails to install with
> >> additional detail, likely having to do with failure to find the
> >> 'libcurl' system dependencies. You'll want to use Synaptic to
> install
> >> the version of libcurl suitable for 'development' (I don't know the
> >> details for Synaptic, it is the version that contains the curl
> header
> >> files).
> >>
> >>> 2: In install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies =
> >>> dependencies, :
> >>> installation of package 'biomaRt' had non-zero exit status
> >>
> >> likely biomaRt fails because RCurl had failed; correct RCurl, and
> >> biomaRt will work.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>> I am wondering if anyone has has a similar issue? And if the
> two software
> >>> packages are compatible or not?
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> --
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Andreia J. Amaral
> > Unidade de Imunologia Clínica
> > Instituto de Medicina Molecular
> > Universidade de Lisboa
> > email: andreiaamaral at fm.ul.pt <mailto:andreiaamaral at fm.ul.pt>
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Wolfgang
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