[R-SIG-Mac] CRAN Mac OS build of packages that depend on GO.db

[Simon Urbanek]

On Mar 31, 2015, at 7:15 PM, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I hope the maintainer (Simon Urbanek?) of the CRAN Mac OS build system
> reads this

I happen to read this list, but we do ask developers to contact CRAN maintainers directly.


> - the GO.db package used by the CRAN Mac OS X build machine
> seems to be out of date (or perhaps the bioconductor installation is
> broken). The check log of WGCNA (which depends on GO.db) says:
> 
> Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'GO.db', details:
>  call: match.arg(synchronous, c("off", "normal", "full"))
>  error: 'arg' must be NULL or a character vector
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘WGCNA’
> 
> Apparently this issue arises from an incompatibility of older GO.db
> with new RSQLite 1.0.0, see this thread
> https://support.bioconductor.org/p/63555/
> 
> Can you please check that the bioconductor installation is up to date?
> 


BioC dependencies are not typically updated automatically so I take this as a request to update them.

Cheers,
Simon