Thank you all- I installed XCode and I was able to download the package. Regds Abi On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Benilton Carvalho < beniltoncarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > Although you didn't tell us, it seems you're running Mac OS X... > > Because you're trying to install from the source, you need to install > XCode (it is on your Mac OS X DVD). > > I wonder why the binaries were not sufficient for you... > > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") > biocLite("flowCore") > > should get you going just fine (and you wouldn't need to install XCode) > > b > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Abbhirami Rajagopal > <abbhirami@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am new to R and bioconductor, I have been trying to download the > packages > > for flow cytometry data analysis > > > > Below is the error message I got- I had to reinstall R a few times before > I > > got to this stage. The installation seemed to have work fine but I still > > cannot get the package- please HELP > > > > Regds > > Abi > > > > * installing *source* package ‘flowCore’ ... > > ** libs > > ** arch - i386 > > sh: make: command not found > > ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘flowCore’ > > * removing > > > ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10/Resources/library/flo wCore’ > > * restoring previous > > > ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10/Resources/library/flo wCore’ > > > > The downloaded packages are in > > > ‘/private/var/folders/32/32m0GhxDHKS- TBOPVk6WIU+++TI/-Tmp-/Rtmpdm9kpV/downloaded_packages’ > >> library(flowcore) > > Error in library(flowcore) : there is no package called 'flowcore' > > In addition: Warning message: > > In install.packages(c("flowCore"), lib = > > "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/", : > > installation of package 'flowCore' had non-zero exit status > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]