[R-pkg-devel] rtracklayer installation problems

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/04/2021 4:49 a.m., rosario.avolio using unina.it wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>   
> 
> I hope this is the right e-mail I should have used; this is the first time
> that I ask for help with R!
> 
> Yesterday, I installed the devel version of R (4.1) as I need to use a
> package (RiboDiPa) which only works for this version.
> 
> The package requires, among the others, the package "rtracklayer". Since
> yesterday I am struggling trying to install rtracklayer for devel version
> without success.
> 
> Below you can find the final message I got before the installation stops.
> Any idea of what might be the reason why I cannot install rtracklayer?
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> ucsc/udc.c:46:10: fatal error: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory
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> #include <sys/mman.h>
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>            ^~~~~~~~~~~~
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> compilation terminated.
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> make: *** [Makevars.win:16: ucsc/udc.o] Error 1
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> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rtracklayer'
> 
> * removing 'C:/Users/Rosario/Documents/R/win-library/4.1/rtracklayer'
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> If you need any other information please, do not hesitate to ask.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help!

rtracklayer is a Bioconductor package, so you're probably better off 
asking on their support site https://support.bioconductor.org/.  When 
you do, please show the command you used for the install; it's possible 
a simple change there will fix things.

Duncan Murdoch