Installing SpikeOMatic on Windows

Good news it is straightforward…with the binary distribution

Download SpikeOMatic_0.6-1.zip for Windows, then from the package menu of the R window, select the package (that is, point to the folder where you dowloaded it). R should then to everything by itself.

Other required packages

In order to make full use of the GUIs of SpikeOMatic you will need some additional R packages from BioConductor. These packages are:

tkWidgets
widgetTools
DynDoc

To get and install them, just click on the package menu of the R GUI. Then select bioconductor packages and then the three above packages… That's it.

Compile it from source

First of all, go to the Building R for Windows page. Read it carefully and download the tools Duncan Murdoch and Brian Ripley recommand.
Then, dowload the SpikeOMatic source package, unzip it and detar it. Go to the src folder and get rid of everything which is not a C source file (i.e., everything which something else than a .c suffix). Issue the two following commands in the src folder:gcc -O3 -c soml_find_spikes.c soml_make_samples.c soml_em.c R CMD SHLIB -o SpikeOMatic.dll soml_find_spikes.o soml_make_samples.o soml_em.o In principle using directly:
R CMD SHLIB -o SpikeOMatic.dll soml_find_spikes.c soml_make_samples.c soml_em.c
should work but in practice it does not (in that case). If someone has an idea I'd be very happy to hear about it (I don't know much about Windows and I'm eager to learn about the ennemy).
Then put your SpikeOMatic.dll somewhere not in the SpikeOMatic folder and delete the src sub-folder in it. Go to the root folder of SpikeOMatic and issue: R CMD build SpikeOMatic That should generate a SpikeOMatic folder in your R arborization (e.g., in R\rw1091\library). Go into R\rw1091\library\SpikeOMatic and add a libs folder to it, where you just have to paste SpikeOMatic.dll. That's it.

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