Download exploRase

The installation of exploRase depends on your operating system. exploRase has several dependencies, so please make sure that you download and install all of items listed below.

Windows

Please follow these instructions.

• If you don't have it, download R. Run the downloaded file and follow the prompts.
• Start R and copy/paste the following line to the console:
  source("http://www.metnetdb.org/exploRase/files/installer.R")
  Install GTK+ and GGobi when prompted. The script will then tell you how to start exploRase.

Note: The GTK+ installer will install also install Glade, a program for graphically constructing GTK+ GUIs. It is not spyware, adware, malware, or a virus. If you desire, you may remove its shortcut from your desktop.

If the automatic installer fails, one can attempt to install exploRase manually by following these steps:

• Download and install the latest GTK+ runtime.
• Download and install the latest version of GGobi.
• Install the exploRase package from Bioconductor.

Mac OS X

NOTE: It is not currently feasible to install exploRase on a Mac, due to missing Mac binaries for several of its dependencies. If you are an expert user (i.e. someone who has submitted a patch to fix a bug in R), then you can try to carry out the following instructions.

• Download R. Open the downloaded file and follow the prompts.
• Install X11 for Mac OS X.
• Download and run the GGobi installer.
• Install exploRase from Bioconductor. The hard part is building the the CRAN dependencies RGtk2 and rggobi from source. These require many libraries surrounding the GNOME project. Good luck.

Linux

Please download the following components and follow the instructions for each:

• GTK+: This is included in your distribution and probably installed already. If not, please download and build from source.
• R: Build it from source or get a package from your distribution.
• ggobi: Download the source, build and install. There is also a debian package available. Note that GGobi also needs libxml2, but this is probably already on your system.
• rggobi: Get this off of CRAN. Make sure PKG_CONFIG_PATH includes the pkgconfig directory on the same prefix as GGobi was installed (/usr/local by default). Installing rggobi will install several other packages, including RGtk2.
• exploRase: Install as directed on the linked page.

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