[BioC] Bioconductor installation problem on Mac

Herve Pages hpages at fhcrc.org
Tue Aug 29 20:50:18 CEST 2006


Seth Falcon has already answered your question (yesterday). Please read
it before
you post again. Thanks,

H.


Debashis Bhattacharya wrote:
> I have posted this problem earlier, but there was no response. Hence, 
> I'm posting this again.
>
> I have installed R version 2.3.1, on Mac (OS 10.4.7, on an Intel CoreDuo 
> iMac).
>
> When I try to install bioconductor -- following instructions, using 
> biocLite() -- it downloads
> the packages mentioned on the install page. However, the instatllation 
> does not complete.
>
> I get the following message after the downloads are complete:
>
> ------
> The downloaded packages are in
>    /tmp/RtmpJdBYlA/downloaded_packages
> Warning messages:
> 1: number of rows of result
>    is not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: cbind(1, res0, 
> Repository = repos)
> 2: cannot create HTML package index in: make.packages.html()
> ------
>
> I have tried installation with only one package (affy), and still face 
> the same problem. The entire log
> for affy is as follows:
>
> --------
>  > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>  > biocLite(c("affy"))
> Running getBioC version 0.1.6 with R version 2.3.1
> Running biocinstall version 1.8.4 with R version 2.3.1
> Your version of R requires version 1.8 of Bioconductor.
> trying URL 
> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/bin/macosx/i386/contrib/2.3/affy_1.10.0.tgz' 
>
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1733585 bytes
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 1692Kb
>
>
> The downloaded packages are in
>    /tmp/RtmpJdBYlA/downloaded_packages
> Warning messages:
> 1: number of rows of result
>    is not a multiple of vector length (arg 2) in: cbind(1, res0, 
> Repository = repos)
> 2: cannot create HTML package index in: make.packages.html()
> ---------
>
> Please help.
>
>
>
> Debashis Bhattacharya.
>
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