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R/qtl installation on Leopard 10.5.7

3 messages · Karl Broman, Simon Urbanek

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I would like to continue the thread initiated by Matthew Kinkade,  
concerning a problem with the CRAN binary of my "qtl" package.

If one uses install.package("qtl"), with apparently any mirror, the  
Mac binary install is for the previous version of the package (1.11-12).

And it seems that the binary at either of the following

   http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/r-release/qtl_1.12-26.tgz
   http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/r-release/qtl_1.12-26.tgz

were mistakenly built with 2.10.0 rather than 2.9.1, and so loading  
the library gives the error that Matthew Kinkade reported (with a  
dyn.load error and a reference to R version 2.10).

I install the above directly with, for example

   install.packages("qtl", contriburl="http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.9 
")

Who should I talk to about getting the package on CRAN re-built?  Does  
anyone know why install.packages("qtl") grabs the previous version of  
the package and not the most current one?

Thanks,
karl
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Karl Broman
kbroman at biostat.wisc.edu
http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman
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On Jul 16, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Karl Broman wrote:

            
Me. I was at the useR/DSC and in the meantime something went horribly  
wrong with the package builds since suddenly all packages have been  
built with R-devel instead of R-release. I have started a complete re- 
built, but it can take 1-2 days before it's done and propagated  
through the mirrors. Then I'll investigate the cause.
If you referring to 64-bit builds then it's likely that the builds  
have not been run recently. I'll verify that part also tomorrow.

Cheers,
Simon
1 day later
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On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

            
It turns out that qtl was one of those unlucky packages that had  
dependency issues, so it wasn't re-built (there were five others)  
since the R-devel issue fix.
The builds were down due to a reboot of the 64-bit build machine -  
those are not quite automated (because it's not a dedicated machine),  
so I had to start them up manually. The updates should catch up soon.

Cheers,
Simon