[BioC] error in getBioC("exprs")

[A.J. Rossini]

You can compile R without being root.  Why not just do that?

i.e. 

   unpack, then ./configure --prefix=/home/your/placement/directory

for example...

best,
-tony


Robert Baertsch <baertsch at soe.ucsc.edu> writes:

> While you are at it, can you please allow people to install R without
> being root?  Our sysadmin will install only RPMs and since
> bioconductor has no RPMS, all of the R users need  to compile the
> source for R.
>
> It is a real pain and many long time R users are frustrated by it.
> What do you guys have to do something special? Every other unix app in
> the world has an RPM.
>
> RPM good.
> installation scripts bad.
>
> Get the picture.
>
> Jeff Gentry wrote:
>
>>> I've gotten this error a few times. Each time I rerun
>>> getBioC("exprs") , it get past it and then it happens again.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yes ... I've gotten a rash of these reports, have not been able to
>>personally reproduce it.  Originally the first couple of people were using
>>Mac OS X, so thought it was a problem specific to that OS, but now have a
>>few people using Win32 and Unix machines.  I'm a bit baffled as everyone
>>is using release side stuff, and nothing should have changed there, but
>>clearly something is not right.  Will let folks know ASAP when I figure
>>something out.
>>
>>Thanks
>>-J
>>
>>
>
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