Instructions for installing dependencies on Windows are required.

[Leytoncito]

Hi,

Using docker and a web page is nice, but it seems limiting, I tried to use this library in Rstudio and when I run library(openprimeR), it throws me this:

There are missing/non-functioning external tools. To use the full potential of openPrimeR, please make sure that the required versions of the speciied tools are

            installed and that they are functional:

o MELTING (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/tools/melting/) o ViennaRNA (http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/RNA/) o OligoArrayAux (http://unafold.rna.albany.edu/OligoArrayAux.php) o MAFFT (http://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/) o Pandoc (http://pandoc.org) Warning in fun(libname, pkgname) : 'Pandoc' is non-functional, since 'pdflatex' is not installed on your system.

So, I try to install these dependencies, for windows (in .exe or .msi formats)... and even when I install everything I still get this message, so I consider it unclear how to install the dependencies and it greatly limits the use of this tool .

I realize there is a way to couple docker with R, however this seems dedicated to Linux.

Is there any way to solve that?

Thanks in advance.

[matdoering]

Either figure it out on Windows and share your setup, so it can be added to the docs or just use docker/Unix/mac. You can also use just the R library using the docker image, as documented here: https://hub.docker.com/r/mdoering88/openprimer/