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

[Maria G]

Dear Lennart,

I don't see 1.7-3 version for MAC (which I use) here:
http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/GenABEL/index.html

best
Maria


10.01.2013, 19:37, "L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org>:
> Dear both,
>
> Yesterday evening Yurii uploaded GenABEL v1.7-3 to CRAN. I installed it
> on our servers this morning but be careful with your choice of download
> mirror. I used the Dutch one at first, but that one still had the older
> version. The US mirror had the latest version.
>
> Lennart.
>
> On 01/10/2013 04:08 PM, Maria G wrote:
>
>>  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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