affy pcg installation and XML installation in Panther
On Jul 15, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Tiago R Magalhaes wrote:
I am trying to install the affy package from bioconductor and I have been very unsuccessful! I have a G4, MacOSX panther and the R version 1.9.1 installed. One of the problems is that the XML tools are not installed. I tried to install a package called libXML2.pkg, but there's an indication that it might be for Jaguar only.
libXML is not necessary (and it's even hurtful) for Panther, because it is already included with the system. The "XML tools" doesn't mean the system library.
When I installed BioConductor from the CRAN repository it gave 23 warnings most of them concerning XML. [1] "Installing XML" Note: Package XML not found in any known repository.
This is some problem with your repository settings on your machine and
is not Mac dependent. Today I able to install XML package w/o any
problems. Although getBioC does the job, too, you can still use the
regular R way using install.packages("XML").
Cheers,
Simon