Hi Sokol I think the binaries for Mac are already available you have to go to the R menu, Packages&Data>Package Installer. In that window, choose Bioconductor (binaries), click Get List. Then choose the packages you want from that list and click Install/Update. I think that should do it. Message: 13 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:54:12 -0500 From: Sokol Haxhinasto <sokolh@mit.edu> Subject: [BioC] question To: Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch Message-ID: <p06100500bdc3f19c0ba0@[134.174.85.20]> Content-Type: text/plain Hi I have a question. i have a mac and using osX I installed the R and then requested getbioc(), and a large list is being generated, howver, there are lots of red-error marks throught the process. here is an example /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make: command not found ERROR: compilation failed for package 'affy' or Warning message: Undefined slot classes in definition of "widgetView": winid(class "tkwin") in: .completeClassSlots(ClassDef, where) should i ignore them or do you have any suggestion what to do. oh, i have a mac just in case it is mac-specific thanks