[BioC] mzR installation

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> Cc: gtsiliki at bioacademy.gr, bioconductor at r-project.org, "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian.org>, "Kevin Ushey"
> <kevinushey at gmail.com>, "Steffen Neumann" <sneumann at ipb-halle.de>
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 6:36:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [BioC] mzR installation
> 
> 
> On 10 February 2014 at 10:21, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> | What the error message is saying is that installing Rcpp 0.11.0 is
> | the way around this.
> | Unfortunately, that's not all.
> | 
> | The latest version of mzR is currently not available for Mac
> | because of an issue in Rcpp which needs to be
> | fixed. Looks like it has been fixed in Github but not yet
> | propagated to CRAN. So as soon as you see a version of Rcpp higher
> | than 0.11.0 on
> | this page:
> | 
> | http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html
> | 
> | ...try again.
> 
> Or just install Rcpp from it current (and *very stable*) source
> repository:
> https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp
> 

You can also do this:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("mzR", type="source")

But this (and the github url that Dirk suggests) requires that you have the appropriate compilers installed, which on Mac requires that you install Xcode and its "command line tools" package. 

Dan


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