On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Christopher Howerton <chowerto at="" vet.upenn.edu=""> wrote: > Dan, > > Thanks for the quick response; I've never done it, but is it worth it to trying to figure out if I can compile both 'bigmemory' and 'gCMAP'? > I don't think it will work. The bigmemory authors have said they intend to reintroduce Windows support at some point, but at this point it is not supported. Dan > Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at="" fhcrc.org=""> > To: "Christopher Howerton" <chowerto at="" vet.upenn.edu=""> > Cc: bioconductor at r-project.org > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:40:19 PM > Subject: Re: [BioC] gCMAP for windows? > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Christopher Howerton > <chowerto at="" vet.upenn.edu=""> wrote: >> It's totally possible that I am messing this up, but is gCMAP not available for Windows? >> >> I've tried using the argument biocLite('gCMAP', type = "source") with the following output: >> >>> biocLite("gCMAP", type= "source") >> BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org >> Using Bioconductor version 2.12 (BiocInstaller 1.10.1), R >> version 3.0.1. >> Installing package(s) 'gCMAP' >> Warning messages: >> 1: package ?gCMAP? is not available (for R version 3.0.1) >> > > gCMAP is not available for windows. I think this is because of the > dependency on bigmemory which is also not supported on windows. > > Because the package's DESCRIPTION file says > OS_type: unix > biocLite won't even try to install it, even with type="source". > > Dan > > >> >> -- >> Christopher Howerton, PhD >> Postdoctoral Researcher >> (215) 898-1368 >> University of Pennsylvania >> 201E Vet >> 3800 Spruce Street >> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6046 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor