Installation

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IRIS is implemented as an Rcpp package, which can be installed from GitHub by:

Dependencies #

  • R version >= 4.2.2.
  • Dependent R packages: Rcpp (>= 1.0.9), RcppArmadillo, SingleCellExperiment, SummarizedExperiment, methods, Matrix, MCMCpack, fields, wrMisc, RANN, stats, ggplot2, grDevices, reshape2

1. Install devtools if necessary # 

install.packages('devtools')

2. Install CARD # 

devtools::install_github('YingMa0107/IRIS')

3. Load package # 

library(IRIS)

This package is supported for Windows 10, MAC and Linux. The package has been tested on the following systems:

  • MAC (Catalina 10.15, Monterey 12.4)
  • Linux: Ubuntu (16.04.6)
  • Windows 10: Home (1903)

4. Some possible issues when installing the package, especially on the MacOS system #

(1) Cannot find tools necessary when using R in the MacOS system.

Error: Failed to install 'IRIS' from GitHub:
  Could not find tools necessary to compile a package
Call `pkgbuild::check_build_tools(debug = TRUE)` to diagnose the problem.

possible solution: in R, type the code options(buildtools.check = function(action) TRUE ), see the discussion about this error, link

(2) library not found for -lgfortran when using R in the MacOS system.

ld: library not found for -lgfortran

It seems the gfortran is not well installed on the MacOS system. Please check this link for the gfortran installation to see if it helps.