[BioC] Problem of loading xps package

[Li Hao]

Thanks so much for your detailed reply, Christian.

Hopefully that the problem will get resolved soon and Vista and Windows 7
will be able to support this library. For now I'll switch to Linux to get
xps working.

Best,
Li

-----Original Message-----
From: cstrato [mailto:cstrato at aon.at] 
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:45 PM
To: Li Hao
Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [BioC] Problem of loading xps package

Dear Li,

The error you get indicates that you have installed the wrong version of 
root.  For Windows it is important to install the same version which is 
installed on the BioC servers to create the xps binary. Thus you need to 
install the following root version:
ftp://root.cern.ch/root/root_v5.24.00.win32.vc90.msi

To help people find the correct root version I have added the version 
number to:
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/xps.html
where you can find it under "System Requirements".

However, please note that currently xps works only on Windows XP but not 
on Vista or Windows 7. The reason for this is that R is compiled with 
MinGW while root is compiled with VC++. I am trying since some time to 
solve this problem and have asked at the R-devel mailing list for help, see:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-September/054843.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055200.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-March/052830.html
Sadly, until now I did not receive any answer which could help me to 
solve this problem.

Best regards
Christian
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Li Hao wrote:
> Hi, all
>
>  
>
> I am new here and just started to learn bioconductor. I installed ROOT and
> xps. But when I loaded xps, I got the following messages:
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>   
>> library("xps") 
>>     
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> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) : 
>
>   unable to load shared library
> 'C:/Users/haol/Documents/R/win-library/2.10/xps/libs/xps.dll':
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>   LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
>
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'xps'
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> I work with Vista, R (2.10.0), ROOT (v5.18), and xps (1.6.1).
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> Anyone has experience with this kind of problem? Any inputs will be highly
> appreciated.
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>
> Li
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