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NKI-CCB / DISCOVER

DISCOVER co-occurrence and mutual exclusivity analysis for cancer genomics data
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Installation Instructions Don't Work for Windows #1

Closed DarioS closed 7 years ago

DarioS commented 7 years ago

The instructions need to be improved for installing in Windows.

> options(repos=c(getOption("repos"), "http://ccb.nki.nl/software/discover/repos/r"))
> install.packages("discover")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Dario/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
  also installing the dependency ‘matrixStats’

Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran:
  ‘discover’
These will not be installed

Instead of hosting on GitHub, it would be better if the software had adequate documentation (Rd files in a man folder) to be accepted into CRAN or Bioconductor.

scanisius commented 7 years ago

Thanks for reporting this issue. Are you by any chance running a 32-bit version of R?

DarioS commented 7 years ago

Yes, I am using a 32-bit R and a 32-bit operating system.

scanisius commented 7 years ago

The Windows package had been built for 64-bit R only. I now uploaded new Windows packages that are compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit R. I think this will fix the problem you ran into.

As for your suggestion to make DISCOVER available on CRAN: I will indeed submit to CRAN soon. In the meantime, please note that there already is documentation for the most important functions in the current package. See help(package=discover) and the package vignette.