[R] Rhelp

[David Winsemius]

The box referred to is probably the little blue box on the left hand  
side of the Package Manager that the Mac GUI offers for loading  
packages. One possible cause for that behavior in my experience is  
working with a 64 bit GUI when the package was installed from binary.  
This occurs because most of the Mac binaries at this point are  
compiled for 32 bit target machines.

One possible workaround is to compile from all packages source in the  
64 bit GUI's Package Installer (with the compile dependencies checkbox  
checked.) The BioCLite bundle took a while but it did compile without  
errors reported.  That's been working for this UNIX neophyte for the  
last several months and I only lack the skills to fix what is broken  
with the underpinnings to rgl.

Obviously the OP should have included more system and device details,  
especially the results of systemInfo() .

-- 
David Winsemius
On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Sarah Goslee wrote:

> Well, I personally have no idea what "the box" might be, but I've  
> sent this
> back to the list (you sent it just to me), and maybe someone else will
> know.
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Slusher, Nicole
> <slushern at anesthesia.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> When I tried to load the package by checking on the box, the box  
>> wouldn't
>> check and the package would not load.  I installed the package  
>> through
>> Bioconductor
>>
>>
>> On 4/22/09 1:55 PM, "Sarah Goslee" <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You might be better off asking on the Bioconductor list.
>>>
>>> But in general, we need to know _what_ went wrong. What did you do,
>>> what happened, what error messages did you get? Those messages are
>>> given for a reason, you know...
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Slusher, Nicole
>>> <slushern at anesthesia.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>  I am trying to run R on my Mac (OS10.5.6) and am having trouble  
>>>> installing
>>>> and running packages (genefilter in particular in Bioconductor)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've tried re-installing R and it hasn't solved the issue.
>>>>
>>>

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT