[BioC] GWASTools instalation problem

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Hi Jose,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lopez Bobeda,Jose R" <jrlopez at ufl.edu>
> To: sdmorris at u.washington.edu, zhengx at u.washington.edu, bioconductor at r-project.org
> Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2014 12:01:36 PM
> Subject: [BioC] GWASTools instalation problem
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am not able to load the library GWASTools in R 3.1 (or 3.04) in a
> Windows 8 operating system (64 bits). I get the following error:
> 
> > library(GWASTools)
> Loading required package: gdsfmt
> Error: package ‘gdsfmt’ was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install
> it
> >
> 
> When I look for the latest version of the package in the CRAN website
> I
> get the following error
> 
> Package ‘gdsfmt’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
> 
> Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.
> 
> Archived on 2014-05-31 as the maintainer was unable to provide
> cross-platform code.
> 
> 
> The latest version of the package in the archive is ‘gdsfmt' is
> 1.0.4, which is the one I installed.
> 
> I get a similar error when I try to install the package form
> bioconductor.org.
> 
> > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> Bioconductor version 2.14 (BiocInstaller 1.14.2), ?biocLite for help
> >
> 
> 
> >     biocLite("gdsfmt")
> BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
> Using Bioconductor version 2.14 (BiocInstaller 1.14.2), R version
>    3.1.0.
> Installing package(s) 'gdsfmt'
> Warning messages:
> 1: package ‘gdsfmt’ is not available (for R version 3.1.0)
> 2: installed directory not writable, cannot update packages 'MASS',
>    'Matrix', 'mgcv'
> >
> 
> 
> I will appreciate any help you can give me to solve this problem.
> 

It should work now if you quit R and start a fresh R session.
Dan


> Regards,
> 
> 
> Jose Lopez
> Ph.D. Student
> Agronomy Department
> University of Florida
> 
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