Hi David, What platform are you running on? Yes, I figured out how to get it all done yesterday, and now have a great R installation with ppc and ppc64 architectures running well. I spent the day cranking through HMM modeling of bunches of Illumina chip data, which I just could not do with limited memory or 32 bit software.
There's no need to install 64 bit stuff if you don't have much memory or large data sets. I'm not seeing ppc64 architecture when I install bioconductor packages. When you say the biocLite stuff installed, are you saying you have 64 bit architecture versions available? I only see i386 and ppc architectures install when I install from Bioconductor binaries. Hmisc and Design are working fine for me, so it can be done. What error messages are you seeing when you try to install from source? Best Steve M -----Original Message----- From: David Winsemius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/27/2008 6:19 AM To: Steven McKinney Cc: Simon Urbanek; [email protected] Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Installing multiple architectures for a package On Nov 27, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Steven McKinney wrote: > > > I have Leopard on my Mac (sessionInfo below), and 16GB RAM, > and mountains of data to process. So having 64-bit capability > allows me to get lots of processing done that would otherwise > be painful. > > I use a lot of Bioconductor packages, but they are not > providing ppc64 architecture with their binaries. Have you tried installing what you need? I was asked offlist whether there would be any point in installing the 64 bit version by someone who was using selected portions of the bioconductor suite. The entire biocLite superpackage installed from binaries under my 64bit GUI installation without complaint and ran a brief test suite. I still am not having that same error free installation with Harrell's Design and Hmisc combo however. If someone on the list has had a go at figuring out what is stopping the Design and Hmisc packages from compiling, I would be interested. -- David Winsemius > > > In a recent email (Nov 6, 2008 - inserted at end of this > email) you kindly offered to compile BioC packages > so that ppc64 architecture would be available. Will > you be able to offer this? If so, where will those > binary packages containing ppc64 architecture be > found - at your website or Bioconductor? > > If not, then I need to figure all this out. > It is very convenient to install the bulk of > packages via the R.app package installer, but > then I have to do the ppc64 architecture additionally. > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
