I am installing Bioconductor on a new machine (Intel Mac running OSX 10.5.5), R version is 2.8.0. sudo R is used for this session. These are the error messages I get: source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocinstall() Running biocinstall version 2.3.8 with R version 2.8.0 (under development) Your version of R requires version 2.3 of Bioconductor. Warning: unable to access index for repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/data/annotation/bin/macosx//contr ib/2.8 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/data/experiment/bin/macosx//contr ib/2.8 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/extra/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8 Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8 Warning message: package 'Biobase' is not available http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/src/contrib/PACKAGES will produce a web page displaying packages. (I read a post that asked for this. I am assuming this was a quick server diagnostics). Is there a problem with the server, or is this a temporary glitch in the installer? Is there a workaround? Much thanks. Shin

Shin, I appears that R 2.8 has changed the way it regulates Mac OS X binary packages for users running Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). We have just become aware of this change and will be adjusting the Bioconductor Mac OS X repositories accordingly over the next few days to adjust to these changes. The good news is that R 2.8 supports binary packages for both Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I'll send out an e-mail to this group when the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) packages are available for BioC 2.3. Patrick Shinichiro Wachi wrote: > I am installing Bioconductor on a new machine (Intel Mac running OSX 10.5.5), R > version is 2.8.0. > > sudo R is used for this session. > > These are the error messages I get: > > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > biocinstall() > > Running biocinstall version 2.3.8 with R version 2.8.0 (under development) > Your version of R requires version 2.3 of Bioconductor. > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8 > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/data/annotation/bin/macosx//con trib/2.8 > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/data/experiment/bin/macosx//con trib/2.8 > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/extra/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8 > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/macosx//contrib/2.8 > Warning message: > package 'Biobase' is not available > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/src/contrib/PACKAGES > will produce a web page displaying packages. (I read a post that asked for this. > I am assuming this was a quick server diagnostics). > > Is there a problem with the server, or is this a temporary glitch in the > installer? Is there a workaround? > > Much thanks. > > Shin > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >