Hi Simon,Thank you. It's a several minutes hang, on a relatively fast
'university' LAN. But more interestingly, perhaps, Mac OS 'believes' that R
is not responding while it goes ahead and installs packages. Does that
suffice to claim that installation of extra packages is dysfunctional on my
platform?
I have successfully managed to install packages by hand, few days ago, after
I had dowloaded them manually, and this had worked - but for "genefilter".
Since I was getting stuck with the installation of genefilter, I erased R
(following instructions) and re-installed it from the .dmg package. That,
however, does not seem to have helped much.
Cheers again.
Massimo

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek@r-project.org>wrote:

>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:57 AM, Massimo Pinto wrote:
>
>  Greetings,
>> I am having troubles getting R to work on a Mac OS X 10.5.6, Leopard. I
>> have
>> installed R 2.8.1 (R 2.8.1 GUI 1.27 Tiger build 32-bit) from a .dmg file
>> using the Mac OS installer, and, apparently, everything went smoothly.
>>
>>> From R, I would like to install a few basic packages that I will need to
>>> run
>>>
>> in conjunction with "Agi4x44PreProcess" which I need to use to preprocess
>> my
>> cDNA microarray data. This is what I do from the R console:
>>
>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>   biocLite()
>>
>> I do get a list of the packages that will be installed, but then the
>> system
>> hangs and I have to resort to a "Force Quit".
>> I get the same behaviour when I try the package installer, right from the
>> R
>> GUI. Again, I got a hang.
>>
>>
> How long is the "hang"? Note that the installation can take a while
> depending on your connection since some of the packages are big. If R hangs
> for a while even installing one package, then there may be some problem with
> your internet connection. In that case you may want to download the files
> manually (e.g. thorough a proxy) and install them from local files.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>  I would greatly appreciate any suggestion toward the resolution of this
>> problem.
>> Yours,
>> Massimo
>>
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>> Enrico Fermi Centre and Italian Public Health Research Institute (ISS),
>> Rome
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