[BioC] Installing packages

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Rohmatul Fajriyah <rfajriyah at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I recently tried to use the Biconductor Cloud AMI (RStudio).
>
> I installed some packages and it was ok.
> Then I installed the "gsl", "Rcmdr" and "MBCB"packages and it was not ok.
>
> For the "Rcmdr" and "MBCB", the message was:
> Warning in fun(libname, pkgname) : couldn't connect to display ":0"

By looking at the requirements for these packages, I see that they
both require "gui components", ie. they both requires tcl/tk.

These simply won't work on an Rstudio/web system ... Rstudio is
creating a gui using http/web "stuff" that you then access through
your web browser.

For the tcl/tk stuff to work, I suspect you'll need an X11
client/server setup which is not this.

So -- I don't expect there to be a fix for that.

> For the "gsl", the message was:

It's possible for a fix to this -- the AMI that the Bioc folks are
using needs to have the GSL installed on it. Once that's done, this
should be able to be installed (assuming they agree to add it, that
is).

> With kind regards,
> R Fajriyah
> (as far as I am concerned, I am not a member of this group yet)

Huh?

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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