[BioC] gCMAP for windows?

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Christopher Howerton
<chowerto at vet.upenn.edu> wrote:
> It's totally possible that I am messing this up, but is gCMAP not available for Windows?
>
> I've tried using the argument biocLite('gCMAP', type = "source") with the following output:
>
>> biocLite("gCMAP", type= "source")
> BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
> Using Bioconductor version 2.12 (BiocInstaller 1.10.1), R
>   version 3.0.1.
> Installing package(s) 'gCMAP'
> Warning messages:
> 1: package ‘gCMAP’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1)
>

gCMAP is not available for windows. I think this is because of the
dependency on bigmemory which is also not supported on windows.

Because the package's DESCRIPTION file says
OS_type: unix
biocLite won't even try to install it, even with type="source".

Dan


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