I believe that the issue is probably that a different compiler was used to build the binaries than was used to build R. I think if you check Simon's R on OS X page, it will tell you not to do that. Some choices (pretty close to what Diego suggested) 1) build all packages, so change what you download to source, not binary. 2) get and install the same compilers Simon uses, if you want to build R yourself and use binary packages. 3) get and use the prebuilt binary version of R, and binary packages. best wishes Robert Diego Diez wrote: > Hi Andrea, > > I found this behavior when compiling R myself and installing the binary > packages from BioC. You can avoid this either compiling yourself the BioC > packages (i.e. using the argument type="source" in biocLite) or installing > the official binary version of R available from the R web site and then > calling biocLite as usual. > > Best, > > Diego. > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Andrea Tanzer wrote: > >> hi, >> >> I just installed R 2.5.1 via fink and bioconductor 2.0 with bioLite on my >> powerbook G4, >> System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) >> Kernel Version: Darwin 8.10.0 >> >> but when calling a library I get the following error: >> >>> library("vsn") >> Error: package 'vsn' was built for universal-apple-darwin8.9.1 >> >> the same happens with all other packages. >> >> I am not sure if the kernel version is realy important, >> I got the same message with the previous osX version (kernel 8.9.0) >> and todays update to osx 10.4.10 didn't change a thing. >> >> is this a usual error newbies get or is there something else wrong? ;-) >> >> Thanks for your help, >> a. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > -- Robert Gentleman, PhD Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M2-B876 PO Box 19024 Seattle, Washington 98109-1024 206-667-7700 rgentlem at fhcrc.org