[BioC] Installing bioconductor packages on leopard inside custom R

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Wed Mar 5 20:32:03 CET 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Shripad Sinari <ssinari at tgen.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I have a 64-bit Mac and Leopard. I have compiled and installed R from source
>  with gcc 4.2 for architecture x86_64.
>
>  * I would appreciate suggestions on installing bioconductor packages easily,
>  i.e., preferably not from source.
>
>  Otherwise,
>
>  * Can any one suggest, as how to download the sources for all available
>  packages from a repository?
>
>  * Does any have a script to compile these in a batch and install?

Take a look at the help for "available.packages".  You will also want
to read the Bioconductor installation instructions on the bioconductor
website.  You can use biocLite() to install packages and specify
type='source'.

Sean



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