[R-SIG-Mac] 64 bit - Installing packages from source

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Note that R 2.8.0 and Bioconductor 2.3 postdate the messages you quote.

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Steven McKinney wrote:

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Lianoglou [mailto:mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thu 11/6/2008 1:29 PM
>> To: Steven McKinney
>> Cc: R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 64 bit R tcltk library problem: Symbol not found: _Tk_Init
>>
>> Hi,
>>
> ...
>>
>> In trying to be a little helpful, though ...
>>
>>> Initially I installed several Bioconductor packages,
>>> using biocLite() e.g.
>>> biocLite("beadarray", type = "source")
>>
>> You don't actually need to install bioconductor packages from source
>> -- they're already compiled as a 4-way fat binary for Leopard as of
>> bioconductor 2.3 ... while it doesn't help you much here, perhaps it's
>> good to know to save you install/compile time in the future.
>>
>> -steve
>>
>> --
>> Steve Lianoglou
>> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
>> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>>
>> http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
>>
>
> "> You don't actually need to install bioconductor packages from source  "
>
> Can Simon Urbanek weigh in on this?
> I've been keeping an eye on R-SIG-Mac and have been seeing
> repeated references in the last few weeks about
> installing from source for 64-bit R.
>
> e.g.:
>
> Re: [R-SIG-Mac] /bin/sh: tar: command not found
> Kasper Daniel Hansen 	 Sent:  	 Fri 10/3/2008 2:43 PM
>
> If you are doing 64bit computing you need
> to install from source.
>
>
>
>
> Re: [R-SIG-Mac] 64 bit Mac GUI
>
> Simon Urbanek	 Sent:  	 Sun 9/28/2008 12:36 PM
>
>
> PS: When you are using the Package Installer, make sure you select
> "CRAN (sources)"!
>
>
>>> You don't need extra library paths for 64-bit packages, but you want
>>> to use type='source' in install.packages for 64-bit (as the site
>> says).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>
>
> Any guidance appreciated.
>
> Steven McKinney
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