Unable to install 'Velocyto.R' from Github

Question

I am a beginner in R trying to analyze my scRNA-seq data with velocyto.R in R studio. Following velocyto tutorial, I tried installing velocyto.R as below:

library(devtools)
install_github("velocyto-team/velocyto.R")

But, an error pops up:

ERROR: compilation failed for package 'velocyto.R'

removing 'C:/Users/USER/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/velocyto.R'
Error: Failed to install 'velocyto.R' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/USER/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpukpRFl/file37346a812b86/velocyto.R_0.6.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Is there anyone to face the same problem described above and succeed in resolving it after all? I desperately need helps!

Thanks

Answer 1

As your error log says C:/... , you probably use Windows. According to velocyto's README it seems that this package runs only on unix-flavored systems with C++11 , Open MP , boost , igraph and hdf5c++ libraries.

This can be the problem: read the velocyto's GitHub issue #40 , maybe you'll need to run this under WSL...?