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Cannot install snpStats packages

I follow the instruction from https://www.bioconductor.org/install/. But I got error as following

> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Warning in install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos = a["BioCsoft", "URL"]) :
  'lib = "/share/apps/R/3.1.1/intel/2013.0.028/lib64/R/library"' is not writable
Error in install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos = a["BioCsoft", "URL"]) : 
  unable to install packages
Calls: source ... eval.parent -> eval -> eval -> eval -> eval -> install.packages
Execution halted

Can someone help me here?

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updated by UMen • UMen • written by zwang10 • zwang10

Dear gemini,

sorry but that doesn't work for R 3.6.1

 if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("BiocManager")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/ugem/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository https://cran.uib.no/src/contrib:
  cannot open destfile 'C:\Users\ugem\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpmi2CkS\file641442e6cb5', reason 'No such file or directory'
Error in gzfile(file, mode) : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning messages:
1: package ‘BiocManager’ is not available (for R version 3.6.1) 
2: In gzfile(file, mode) :
  cannot open compressed file 'C:\Users\uwemenze\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpmi2CkS/libloc_196_fd84b67.rds', probable reason 'No such file or directory'
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updated by zx8754 zx8754 • written by UMen • UMen

One thing you could try is getting used to conda. Conda lets you manage many different environments with different versions of R. Usually installing packages are as simply as conda install [package]'. When using a new package the first thing I do these days is to look and see if it is install-able with conda

https://anaconda.org/bioconda/bioconductor-snpstats

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written by curious curious

3 answers

'lib = "/share/apps/R/3.1.1/intel/2013.0.028/lib64/R/library"' is not writable

Obviously, you don't have the permission to install package to the R library folder.

  1. add the following lines to ~/.Renviron: R_LIBS_USER='~/R/library'

  2. try again:

source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("snpStats")

You should be able to install any package you want.

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written by Guangchuang Yu Guangchuang Yu

you may need to mkdir -p ~/R/library if it complained that the folder does not exists.

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written by Guangchuang Yu Guangchuang Yu

With the latest update you have to do the same but install BiocManager : This is done only for version R > 3.4

  if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install()

and then :

BiocManager::install(c("snpStats"))

works for now

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updated by zx8754 zx8754 • written by gemini.venkat • gemini.venkat

Thanks for the answers, I found another solution by myself:

  1. download "snpStats_1.38.0.zip" from Bioconductor
  2. install.packages(file.choose(), repos = NULL, type="source") # choose zipfile downloaded
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updated by zx8754 zx8754 • written by UMen • UMen

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