[GenABEL-dev] GenABEL: Installation/load error on Unix, MAC and Windows...

[Maria G]

Thanks a lot, Nicola!!

Don't you mind if I copy your answer to the Forum? 
or may be you would like to publish the answer there from your personal name?

best
Maria

10.01.2013, 19:06, "Nicola Pirastu" <pirastu at burlo.trieste.it>:
> Hi Maria,
>
> the problem was addressed a few days ago and I think it will be fixed permanently in the next release.
>
> Meanwhile it is possible to go around it by adding a few lines in the file /GenABEL/R/checkPackageVersionOnCRAN.R
>
> this is how it looks like now:
>
>         stringSplit <- strsplit(targetLine,splitPattern)
>         cranVersion <- stringSplit[[1]][length(stringSplit[[1]])-1]
>
> and this is the how I personally fixed it:
>
>      stringSplit <- strsplit(targetLine,splitPattern)
>
>       if(length(stringSplit)>0){
>
>         cranVersion <- stringSplit[[1]][length(stringSplit[[1]])-1]
>
>         }else{
>                 cranVersion <- "1.7-2"
>       }
>
> Basically for some reason it does not catch the version number from CRAN which was not supposed to happen, so I just added a check.
>
> What you have to do is:
>
> 1) uncompress the GenABEL tar
>
> 2) open the /GenABEL/R/checkPackageVersionOnCRAN.R file
>
> 3) add the two lines
>
> 4) save and reinstall the GenABEL package.
>
> This worked at least for me. I'm sure someone figured out something more elegant, but this is an easy work around.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Nicola
>
> Il giorno 10/gen/2013, alle ore 15:56, Maria G <mgmaria at yandex.ru> ha scritto:
>
>>  Dear maintainers,
>>
>>  I would like to attract your attention to recently arised problem with loading GenABEL under any version of OS.
>>
>>  Please, have a look at the Forum here:
>>
>>  http://forum.genabel.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=733&p=1332#p1332
>>
>>  Hope to get good news from you soon
>>
>>  best
>>
>>  Maria
>>
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