[BioC] Installing bioconductor under MacOsx

[Warnes, Gregory R]

Hi Jeff,

How are read-only directories handled.  For end-users, it would be ideal if
they were prompted select which library directory (from the current list)
should be the installation target.

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Gentry [mailto:jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:38 PM
> To: Martino Barenco
> Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Installing bioconductor under MacOsx
> 
> 
> > 
> >  > 
> getBioC(libName="all",destdir="/Users/martinobarenco/Desktop/biocond")
> > [1] "Installing reposTools ..."
> > ERROR: cannot write to or create directory '/sw/lib/R/library'
> > Error in upDatePkgs(relLevel, PLATFORM, destdir, method = method) :
> >          Failed to install package Biobase
> > What should I do?
> 
> Yeap, up until a couple of days ago reposTool was not very 
> cooperative    
> when dealing with library directories that one didn't have write
> permission to.
> 
> This has been fixed, but the Release 1.1 patch isn't up on the site
> yet.  The devel version however does work, so you could 
> install the devel
> reposTools and then run getBioC() (or just
> getBioC(relLevel="devel")).  The fix to reposTools will be on 
> the site at
> the very latest Sunday morning (I'll try to get a new build of our
> release packages before that).
> 
> -J
> 
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