Re: [igraph] igraph 0.7 CRAN binaries for OSX

[Diego Diez]

Hi Gabor,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Gábor Csárdi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Diego Diez <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since R-3.1.0 the OSX binaries come in two flavors, snow leopard and
>> mavericks. Actually, both can be used in mavericks and because
>> currently the Bioconductor project does not support Maverick's
>> binaries I have the snow leopard installed. However, when trying to
>> install igraph I get version 0.6.5-2, and version 0.7 is only
>> available as source (see below code).
>
>
> I am not sure why this happens, but you can go to the CRAN site, download
> the 0.7.0 file by hand and install it by hand. I have just tried this, it
> seems to work.

Yes, of course! Silly me did not try that one...

>>
>> Eventually Bioconductor will provide Mavericks binaries and the
>> problem will be fixed by installing the mavericks flavor. However
>> there might be some bona fide snow leopard users and since my package
>> depends on igraph 0.7 this can cause confusion as they will have to
>> install developer tools to get it. Is the reason for this problem
>> known by the igraph developers?
>
>
> I did not know about this, actually, and I have no idea about the reason.
>
>>
>> Is there a fix scheduled?
>
>
> We cannot fix this, the binaries are built by CRAN.
>
>>
>> Should I ask
>> instead in the R mailing list?
>
>
> Yes, maybe on R-devel.
>
> Thanks for the report! Best, Gabor

You are welcome. Will report this if the issue persists for some more days.
Cheers,
Diego

>
>>
>> Thank you.
>> All the best,
>> Diego
>>
>> > install.packages("igraph")
>>
>>   There is a binary version available (and will be installed)
>>   but the source version is later:
>>         binary source
>> igraph 0.6.5-2  0.7.0
>>
>> trying URL
>> 'http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1/igraph_0.6.5-2.tgz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 4466270 bytes (4.3 Mb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 4.3 Mb
>>
>>
>> The downloaded binary packages are in
>>
>> /var/folders/kx/xm4xdp6x3dl2sklv_xqyvxnm0000gn/T//RtmpcaMjZw/downloaded_packages
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>> [7] base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_3.1.0
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Diego Diez, PhD
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>> Quantitative Immunology Research Unit,
>> WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC)
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