Hi,

I have tried to install DiffBind under R3.5.1 (Rstudio), but I cannot as the dependency amap requires R3.6. Is this a known problem? Is there a work around for using R3.5?

Error msg installing DiffBind:

BiocManager::install("DiffBind") ...
ERROR: dependency ‘amap’ is not available for package ‘DiffBind’
...

Error msg installing amap:

install.packages('amap')
Installing package into ‘/home/ian/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘amap’ is not available (for R version 3.5.0)

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/amap/index.html https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/DiffBind.html

Thank you, Ian

It is always a challenge to keep a complex package environment working with old versions of R. If possible, you should move to a more current version of R.

If for some reason you are unable to do so, you can try downloading a previous version of amap that doesn't require R 3.6 or later, and install that. It looks like that newest verison you can use is amap 0.8-16, which can be found in the amap archive on the CRAN site:

https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/amap/

Good luck!