I just upgraded my MacPro from 9.04 to 9.1 and then 10.04. Everything seems to be working fine and now I'm trying to install some software that requires R and Bioconductor.

R seems to have installed fine and when I use the recommended R-script to direct download and installation of the Bioconductor packages, the download works OK but some of the packages do not install and give errors. The installed package is then removed.

Since I now have all the Bioconductor tar.gz downloads locally, I copied one of them to the directory where all the properly installed executables are located, i.e. /usr/local/lib/R/site-library#

I can now extract and install with tar -xzvf, but I have no way of knowing if everything will function or if there are dependencies that are not being made correctly.

Any suggestions? Has anyone had a similar problem when trying to install Bioconductor? There is no alternate protocol at the Bioconductor site for installing other than via R. Does anyone know of a work around?