[Fwd: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing Bioconductor 1.5 on R 2.0 for OS X]

Well,  I am at a loss...
Just after I sent this message to you, I tried one more time on the 
Powerbook, and now it appears to be successfully executing getBioC. I 
wish I new what I did differently. So far, it appears to be compiling 
successfully. I won't know until a lot later. I don't think the 
bioconductor default installations use g77. I need to install DNAcopy 
which is where I had problems in the past.

I will have to wait to try this again on the XServe. It is down at the 
moment for some hardware work.
Thanks
Mike
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing Bioconductor 1.5 on R 2.0 for OS X
Date: 	Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:21:19 -0600
From: 	Michael Redmond <redmond@cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: 	redmond@cs.wisc.edu
Organization: 	Dept. of Statistics, UW-Madison
To: 	Byron Ellis <ellis@stat.harvard.edu>
CC: 	r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch
References: 	<418805F8.3080505@stat.wisc.edu> 
<A9350DA4-2D1F-11D9-9AC4-000D93C24D64@stat.harvard.edu>

Byron,
I have been having some success with R installation by replacing the 
fink version of g77 with the sourceforge version. So thanks very much 
for that info.

Now that I have a good R base system compiled on OS X (I am trying  both 
on a Powerbook for testing and on the XServe), I have been trying to 
load bioconductor to test compile with the sourceforge g77, but with no 
success over the last week. Something seems to have changed, since I was 
able to get further along before then.

On the Powebook, I do the standard connect to 
http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R and the do the getBioC(). It spins 
for a few seconds, then gives an error message "Error in getBioC()" but 
with no additional diagnostic information. This is the same if I ask for 
default or specific packages. I also tried "verbose = TRUE" and got no 
additional info. When I try on the XServe, I get an error message "Error 
in file(file, "wb") : unable to open connection".

I am sure that I wasn't getting these messages when I first tried 
loading bioconductor to the XServe.

Any idea of what is up?
Thanks
Mike Redmond
UW-Madison
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