Installation of RCurl Windows binary package from BioC extra repos (was Re: [BioC] Rcurl 0.8-1 update for bioconductor 2.7)

Hi Patrick,

	Greetings from !(sunny) Pittsburgh.

	What's the scoop on RCurl on windows (XP)?
I've tried to install RCurl_0.92-0.zip and RCurl_0.9-3.zip,
with both R 2.7.2 and R 2.8.0 from the RGUI (utils:::menuInstallLocal),
and get the error
	"Windows binary packages in zipfiles are not supported".
which (according to google's one and only hit) comes from a perl script.
Your suggestion (below) to use biocLite hangs the R session, at this point:
	Running biocinstall version 2.3.9 with R version 2.8.0 
	Your version of R requires version 2.3 of Bioconductor.
	trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/extra/src/contrib/RCurl_0.92-0.tar.gz'
	Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 239873 bytes (234 Kb)
	opened URL
	downloaded 234 Kb
(In this case, R 2.7.2.)
We also tried to build RCurl from the tarballs, 
in DOS window and in Cygwin window,
with a variety of problems.

	Is there a current solution to installing RCurl on windows?

(I'm moving this topic to r-help from bioconductor
on suggestions seen on that list.)

Thanks for your help.
-Roger


  

-----Original Message-----
From: bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
[mailto:bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
Patrick Aboyoun
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:49 PM
To: Steve Lianoglou
Cc: Yan Zhou; bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [BioC] Rcurl 0.8-1 update for bioconductor 2.7

Steve and Yan,
We just uploaded source, Windows binary, and MacOS X Tiger 
binary packages for RCurl 0.9-3 to the Bioconductor CRAN-like 
repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/extra. This 
repository is make available when you use R 2.7.0 and type

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("RCurl")

Let me know if this meets your needs.


Cheers,
Patrick



Steve Lianoglou wrote:
    

Hi,

      

I'm seeking help here regarding updating the Rcurl for macOSX to a 
newer version so it'll accomodate to bioconductor 2.7. The current 
version of Rcurl 0.8-1 (in bioconductor 2.7 for macOSX) is 
        

built for 
    

bioconductor 2.6; Is there anyone who could help to put the 
bioconductor 2.7 compatible version of Rcurl into the 
        

database? So we 
    

could use packages depending on Rcurl? Any kind help is greatly 
appreciated!
        

When this was brought up earlier, I think the consensus was 
      

that since 
    

this isn't a bioconductor hosted package, you'd better 
      

inquire over at 
    

R-help.

That said, someone also suggested earlier to install it 
      

straight from 
    

the source via this incantation:

      

install.packages("RCurl", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R")
        

I don't think that worked for me, and I ended up d/ling the source 
package and installing it manually, by first d/ling it and 
uncompressing it. You'll get an RCurl folder. At the 
      

command line, you 
    

can then:

$ R CMD BUILD RCurl
$ R CMD CHECK RCurl_0.9-3.tar.gz
$ R CMD INSTALL RCurl_0.9-3.tar.gz

I'm not sure if this is the best way, but I seem to have a fully 
functioning RCurl again since the biomaRt package relies on 
      

that, and 
    

that works now.

Btw - you can get RCurl here: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/

HTH,
-steve