Thank you all- I installed XCode and I was able to download the package.

Regds
Abi

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Benilton Carvalho <
beniltoncarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

> Although you didn't tell us, it seems you're running Mac OS X...
>
> Because you're trying to install from the source, you need to install
> XCode (it is on your Mac OS X DVD).
>
> I wonder why the binaries were not sufficient for you...
>
> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite("flowCore")
>
> should get you going just fine (and you wouldn't need to install XCode)
>
> b
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Abbhirami Rajagopal
> <abbhirami@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am new to R and bioconductor, I have been trying to download the
> packages
> > for flow cytometry data analysis
> >
> > Below is the error message I got- I had to reinstall R a few times before
> I
> > got to this stage. The installation seemed to have work fine but I still
> > cannot get the package- please HELP
> >
> > Regds
> > Abi
> >
> > * installing *source* package ‘flowCore’ ...
> > ** libs
> > ** arch - i386
> > sh: make: command not found
> > ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘flowCore’
> > * removing
> >
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10/Resources/library/flowCore’
> > * restoring previous
> >
> ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10/Resources/library/flowCore’
> >
> > The downloaded packages are in
> >
> ‘/private/var/folders/32/32m0GhxDHKS-TBOPVk6WIU+++TI/-Tmp-/Rtmpdm9kpV/downloaded_packages’
> >> library(flowcore)
> > Error in library(flowcore) : there is no package called 'flowcore'
> > In addition: Warning message:
> > In install.packages(c("flowCore"), lib =
> > "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/",  :
> >  installation of package 'flowCore' had non-zero exit status
> >>
> >
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