[BioC] Error in loading "IRanges" package (version 1.6.1)

[Patrick Aboyoun]

Lilyana,
Steve is right. We added an svn.time function to IRanges that produces a time/date stamp in the same format as the BioC Subversion server, e.g. "2007-12-07 10:03:15 -0800 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007)", for use by the GenomicFeatures package. We implemented a method in C that builds on Linux, Windows 32bit&  64bit, and Mac OS X 10.5&  10.6, but not on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Since we dropped support for Mac OS X 10.4, we felt comfortable with this decision at the time. We'll explore alternatives to see if we can come up with an svn.time solution that doesn't preclude building on Mac OS X 10.4. Suggestions by the user community is welcome to speed this process along.


Cheers,

Patrick


On 5/12/10 6:48 PM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Lilyana Margaretha<lilyanam at uw.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a beginner user of R and trying to install "IRanges" package.
>> I have R version 2.11 and running it on Mac OS X 10.4.11.
>> It always gives out this error:
>>
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include
>>   -I/sw/include -I/usr/local/include    -fPIC  -g -O2 -c strutils.c -o
>> strutils.o
>> strutils.c: In function ‘get_svn_time’:
>> strutils.c:167:27: error: invalid operands to binary / (have ‘char *
>> (*)(int,  int)’ and ‘int’)
>> make: *** [strutils.o] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘IRanges’
>> * removing ‘/Users/lilyanamargaretha/Desktop/IRanges.Rcheck/IRanges’
>>
>> Any suggestion on how to solve this will be very much appreciated.
>>      
> I guess I shouldn't really respond since I don't know this for a fact,
> but maybe you need a minimum OS X version of 10.5 (leopard) for
> everything to work?
>
> (I see the that binaries provided online are for Leopard, which is why
> I'm guessing so)
>
> -steve
>
>