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Error: package 'affyio' is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'

4 messages · Loren Engrav, David Winsemius, Patrick Aboyoun

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Greetings

SessionInfo()
R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-11-06 r46845)
i386-apple-darwin9.5.0

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
base     

other attached packages:
[1] affy_1.20.0    affyio_1.10.1  Biobase_2.2.2  maanova_1.12.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] preprocessCore_1.4.0

And MacOS X 10.5.6

Last Nov I ran some 64bit stuff, no problem, and have not installed removed
any R or BioC stuff since then

Now I need to rerun and for several packages I get

package 'xxx' is not installed for 'arch=x86_64'

So I do

source ("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite (c("xxx", "yyy", "zzz"), type="source")
And reload them

And then things work

My question: where how why did my 64bit stuff go?

Thank you
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It's a bit difficult to comment about what sort of quasirandom event  
may have affected the integrity of your device, but here is a theory  
based on my experience: If you updated from binaries (32 bit) that  
were on the Bioconductor server, then you may have overwritten your  
compiled source 64 bit versions. It is rather easy to do that without  
noticing if you are using the GUI Installer. (The fix is also very  
easy.)
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Thank you

I went down the R.app Package Manager list and clicked all the boxes and 6
of them gave the error message so on these I did the biocLite (c("xxx",
"yyy", "zzz"), type="source") drill
And all is Ok again

You might be right, I might have hit the binary buttons
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Loren,
Following David's comment, it is hard to determine where/when the  
change occurred. The MacOS X leopard binary for the BioC 2.3 release  
of affyio does contain the x86_64 binary lib:

Patricks-MacBook-Pro-2:~ patrick$ curl -O  
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.8/affyio_1.10.1.tgz
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
Time  Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  191k  100  191k    0     0   344k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  439k
Patricks-MacBook-Pro-2:~ patrick$ tar xfz affyio_1.10.1.tgz
Patricks-MacBook-Pro-2:~ patrick$ ls affyio/libs/x86_64/
affyio.so

One theory is that you installed the package from source while  
operating on the 32-bit architecture. If you do find a reproduce,  
please post your message to the Bioconductor mailing list since this  
is a packaging/distribution issue, rather than a R Mac OS X one.


Patrick


Quoting Loren Engrav <engrav at u.washington.edu>: