From 5f162816a3998237dd52ffadcf66bda6aa448bed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeffrey Li Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:57:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed DESCRIPTION file to include required Maintainer field. Also updated INSTALL instructions with new section on how to install xtail in R without using Docker. --- DESCRIPTION | 1 + INSTALL | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION index ed1b842..fc012db 100755 --- a/DESCRIPTION +++ b/DESCRIPTION @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Authors@R: person("Yu", "Liu", role = "aut"), person("Xuerui", "Yang", role = "aut"), person("Rongyao", "Huang", email = "THUhry12[at]163.com", role = "ctb")) +Maintainer: Zhengtao Xiao ; Rongyao Huang Description: The xtail package is designed to identify genes exhibiting differential translation between two experimental conditions by simultaneously analyzing diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 666de8b..8b43037 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -32,4 +32,35 @@ Download the binary package from "releases", e.g. xtail_1.1.5.zip; For Windows and Mac OS X, users can install Xtail using R's package installer; For linux, type the following in an R command window: install.packages("xtail_1.1.5.tar.gz") Please make sure that the working directory is the same as the downloading directory , or use the full path, for example, -install.packages("/Users/username/xtail_1.1.5-source.tar.gz") \ No newline at end of file +install.packages("/Users/username/xtail_1.1.5-source.tar.gz") + +# xtail 1.2.0 INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS FOR R INSTALL on MacOS (not using Docker) +1. Install R as above + +2. Install DESeq2 as above + +3. Install gfortran +# I used conda + conda install -c conda-forge gfortran + +3. Clone xtail git repo from Github + git clone https://github.com/xryanglab/xtail.git + +4. Create a Makevars file for .R to find the gfortran install + # if /Users/[USER]/.R does not exist + mkdir /Users/[USER]/.R + + nano /Users/[USER]/.R/Makevars + + # Paste the following lines into the Makevars + # Path should point to your gfortran install (should have a similar directory structure regardless of method) + FC = /opt/miniconda3/bin/gfortran + F77 = /opt/miniconda3/bin/gfortran + FLIBS = -L/opt/miniconda3/lib/gcc + +5. In R, install xtail from local git repo using devtools + library(devtools) + devtools::install(/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/XTAIL/REPO/DIR) + +6. You can delete the /Users/[USER]/.R/Makevars file once the xtail package is installed on R. + rm /Users/[USER]/.R/Makevars \ No newline at end of file