[BioC] load AnnBuilder and install XML

[James W. MacDonald]

Seth Falcon wrote:
> "James W. MacDonald" <jmacdon at med.umich.edu> writes:
> 
>>>I'm using R 2.0.1 actually.
>>>
>>>Is there something wrong with windows version of XML?
>>
>>No, you just did things in an unnecessarily difficult way.
>>
>>install.packages("XML")
>>
>>will get you what you need.
> 
> 
> With R 2.0.1 that should work because the default is for
> install.packages to use the main CRAN site.
> 
> If you use a CRAN mirror, you _might_ not be able to find the Windows
> binary XML package.  It is a special case I think because it isn't as
> easy as other packages to build on Windows.

Yep, you are correct. On R-2.0.1 install.packages("XML") doesn't work 
out of the box. On R-2.1.0, install.packages() finds the correct version 
at BDR's website.

A version that will work with R-2.0.1 can be found here:

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/2.0.0/XML_0.97-0.zip

Jim


> 
> And to clarify the error message: The binary version you found was
> built with an older version of R and so isn't compatible with your R.
> 
> Best,
> 
> + seth
> 
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