[R] installing package

Pascal Oettli kridox at ymail.com
Thu Apr 25 11:00:26 CEST 2013


Hi,

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Regards,
Pascal


On 04/25/2013 04:19 PM, Gitte Brinch Andersen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to install a package (bioconductor) but every time I try to install it I get this message:
>
> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> Warning in install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos = a["BioCsoft", "URL"]) :
>    'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.0.0/library"' is not writable
> Error in install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos = a["BioCsoft", "URL"]) :
>    unable to install packages
>>      biocLite("methylumi")
>
> I normally use mac computers, but I cannot get the right path for the folders I should use, so now I am trying with a windows platform instead. But now I cannot install one of the packages my pipeline needs.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> I know it is probably a simple problem, but I have never used R before and don't know how to solve problems in it.
>
> Best
>
> Gitte Andersen
>
> E-mail: gitteba at hum-gen.au.dk
>
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