Compilation problem installing IRanges
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tuto345 • 0
@tuto345-7751
Last seen 5.5 years ago
France

Hi all,

I have R 3.1.3 on a Centos 5 distribution. I can not install IRanges which fails with the following error message:

IntervalTree.c: In function ‘_IntegerIntervalTree_overlapHelper’:
IntervalTree.c:247: erreur: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
IntervalTree.c:247: note: use option -std=c99 or -std=gnu99 to compile your code
IntervalTree.c: In function ‘IntegerIntervalForest_dump’:
IntervalTree.c:983: erreur: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode

 

Any idea of how I can install/compile IRanges succesfully?

Thanks!

Cristian

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@herve-pages-1542
Last seen 1 day ago
Seattle, WA, United States

Hi Cristian,

3 things:

1) The current Bioconductor release is BioC 3.1 and it requires R 3.2. Make sure you use these versions. You can check the former by loading the BiocInstaller package:

> library(BiocInstaller)
Bioconductor version 3.1 (BiocInstaller 1.18.1), ?biocLite for help

and the latter by calling sessionInfo():

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.18.1

2) How are you trying to install the IRanges package? You need to show us the command you used. The highly recommended way is to use biocLite():

biocLite("IRanges")

Same thing if you were trying to install a package that depends on IRanges: just call biocLite() on it and that will take care of installing any other package that it depends on.

3) The C code in R packages is expected to conform to the C99 standard and so is the C code in the IRanges package. On Linux platforms, R is usually configured to use the gcc compiler and the -std=gnu99 flag when compiling the C code found in packages. What compiler are you using? You're not showing enough output for us to be able to tell. A simple way to find out is with:

hpages@latitude:~$ R CMD config CC
gcc -std=gnu99

If you have more than one R on your system, make sure you use the same R here as the one you started when you tried to install IRanges with biocLite().

Thanks,

H.

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