[BioC] gCMAP for windows?

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Christopher Howerton
<chowerto at vet.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Thanks for the quick response; I've never done it, but is it worth it to trying to figure out if I can compile both 'bigmemory' and 'gCMAP'?
>

I don't think it will work. The bigmemory authors have said they
intend to reintroduce Windows support at some point, but at this point
it is not supported.

Dan


> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> To: "Christopher Howerton" <chowerto at vet.upenn.edu>
> Cc: bioconductor at r-project.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:40:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [BioC] gCMAP for windows?
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Christopher Howerton
> <chowerto at vet.upenn.edu> wrote:
>> It's totally possible that I am messing this up, but is gCMAP not available for Windows?
>>
>> I've tried using the argument biocLite('gCMAP', type = "source") with the following output:
>>
>>> biocLite("gCMAP", type= "source")
>> BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
>> Using Bioconductor version 2.12 (BiocInstaller 1.10.1), R
>>   version 3.0.1.
>> Installing package(s) 'gCMAP'
>> Warning messages:
>> 1: package ‘gCMAP’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1)
>>
>
> gCMAP is not available for windows. I think this is because of the
> dependency on bigmemory which is also not supported on windows.
>
> Because the package's DESCRIPTION file says
> OS_type: unix
> biocLite won't even try to install it, even with type="source".
>
> Dan
>
>
>>
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