On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Massimo Pinto <pintare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all > last week I attempted to install the genefilter package using > BiocLite(genefilter) from the R prompt. Despite having a Mac OS X 10.5.6. > (Tiger), for some reason which I don't understand in full, BioC 2.3 > believes > I am running on Mac OS X 10.4 (Leopard) Hi, Massimo. Os 10.4 is Tiger and 10.5 is Leopard. Sean > > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) > i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 > > therefore, when I run biocLite, general Mac binaries are installed and this > results in execution errors. > > Much thanks to the help found on this list, I have downloaded the tarball > for OSX 10.5 binaries and installed manually. It worked just fine. > > Today I have encountered a similar problem with the package affy. > Accordingly, I have downloaded the OS X 10.5 binaries and installed > manually: > > > install.packages("/Users/massimopinto/Desktop/affy_1.20.2.tgz", > repos=NULL, dependencies=TRUE) > > however, when I load the library: > > > library(affy) > Loading required package: Biobase > Loading required package: tools > > Welcome to Bioconductor > > Vignettes contain introductory material. To view, type > 'openVignette()'. To cite Bioconductor, see > 'citation("Biobase")' and for packages 'citation(pkgname)'. > > Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) : > unable to load shared library > > '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/preprocessCore/libs/i386/preprocessCore.so': > > > dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/preprocessCore/libs/i386/preprocessCore.so, > 6): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib > Referenced from: > > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/preprocessCore/libs/i386/preprocessCore.so > Reason: image not found > Error: package/namespace load failed for 'affy' > > ===the package does not get loaded as a library cannot be found. Similarly, > I run into problems if I install as follows: > > > install.packages("affy", repos=" > > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.8/ > ", > contriburl=" > > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.8/ > ", > dependencies=TRUE) > trying URL ' > > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.8//affy_1.20.2.tgz > ' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1452708 bytes (1.4 Mb) > [...] > > Could it be that the binaries at > > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.8/are > in fact compiled for Tiger? > > Massimo > -- > > Massimo Pinto > Post Doctoral Research Fellow > Enrico Fermi Centre and Italian Public Health Research Institute (ISS), > Rome > http://claimid.com/massimopinto > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac