On Jul 21, 2015, at 8:43 AM, William Morgan wrote: > I’m having trouble installing the SPOT R package for microarray image > analysis. I’m awaiting a response from the packager developer, but wanted to > see if anyone here has successfully used CSIRO’s SPOT software. > > I’ve been following the developer’s "Spot Installation Instructions for Linux > and Unix" > <http://www.hca-vision.com/Spot_Documentation/Spot_Install_UNIX.pdf>: > > - Downloaded the Spot package (Spot_3.2_x86_64.tar) to my hard disk. > > - Started R: > > R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) -- "World-Famous Astronaut" > Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) > … > > - As instructed, executed the command: >> install.packages("Spot_3.2_x86_64.tar.gz", CRAN = NULL) > > This produced: > Warning in install.packages : > package ‘Spot_3.2_x86_64.tar.gz’ is not available (for R version 3.2.1) > > Presuming that R was looking for the package in a repository and not my hard > disk, I modified the command: >> install.packages("~/Downloads/Spot_3.2_x86_64.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = >> "source") > > This produced: > * installing *source* package ‘Spot’ ... > ERROR: a 'NAMESPACE' file is required
If your package does not have a NAMESPACE (which was acceptable several R versions ago) then you either need to revert to an older R from the same era as this was written, or you need to edit the source of the package to create a NAMESPACE. -- David. > * removing > ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/Spot’ > Warning in install.packages : > installation of package > ‘/Users/wmorgan/Downloads/Spot_3.2_x86_64.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status > > (I also tried type = “mac.binary” or “mac.binary.maverick”, but this only > produced an error message that it's is not a mac binary file.) > > David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
