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Installing velocyto.R on Mac
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On a Mac, the linker ld looks at the variable $LIBRARY_PATH

I was trying to install Velocyto.R on Rstudio.

One of the pre-reqs is boost, I installed boost using brew install boost, this links the boost libraries under /usr/local/Cellar/boost/ to /usr/local/lib.

However R was unable to find the boost libraries when installing velocyto.R I had to tell the linker to find the required boost library by setting the environment variable: Sys.setenv(LIBRARY_PATH = "/usr/local/lib") This R command sets the environment variable LIBRARY_PATH and the linking program ld can then find the required boost libraries.

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