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

[Patrick Aboyoun]

I found a candidate replacement:

 > format(Sys.time(), "%Y-%m-%d %X %z (%a, %d %b %Y)")
[1] "2010-05-12 21:19:17 -0700 (Wed, 12 May 2010)"

The author of the original C code, Herve Pages, is currently on holiday 
and I don't know if he had a reason not to use the built in Sys.time 
function. If there are not objections within the next 24 hours by the 
user community, I'll check in this this fix.


Cheers,
Patrick



On 5/12/10 9:10 PM, Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
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