Thanks, Using options(pkgType="source") did the job. Shripad On 3/5/08 1:00 PM, "Max Kuhn" <mxkuhn at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > This has been discussed at length on [R-SIG-Mac] circa Feb. > > See: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-February/004604.html > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-February/004607.html > > and the resulting discussion. > > Max > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Sean Davis <sdavis2 at="" mail.nih.gov=""> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Shripad Sinari <ssinari at="" tgen.org=""> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a 64-bit Mac and Leopard. I have compiled and installed R from >>> source >>> with gcc 4.2 for architecture x86_64. >>> >>> * I would appreciate suggestions on installing bioconductor packages >>> easily, >>> i.e., preferably not from source. >>> >>> Otherwise, >>> >>> * Can any one suggest, as how to download the sources for all available >>> packages from a repository? >>> >>> * Does any have a script to compile these in a batch and install? >> >> Take a look at the help for "available.packages". You will also want >> to read the Bioconductor installation instructions on the bioconductor >> website. You can use biocLite() to install packages and specify >> type='source'. >> >> Sean >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > Shripad Sinari Bioinformatician The Translation Genomics Research Institute (TGen) 445 N. 5th Street Phoenix, AZ 85004 ssinari at tgen.org