Is there a BAM executable for macos? How do i get it because the R way is failing on mac-os

[ejjunju]

I am working with RBaM om MAC os but doing the following in R

# MacOS----------------------------------------------------------------
PathToBaM<-"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-arm64/Resources/library/RBaM/bin" 
RBaM::downloadBaM(PathToBaM,os = "Darwin")

# Install RBaM first (dependency for RatingShiftHappens)---------------
install_if_missing("RBaM", "BaM-tools/RBaM")
RBaM::setPathToBaM(PathToBaM)
RBaM::getPathToBaM()

# Load the packages-----------------------------------------------------
library(RBaM)

Yields the following error and there is no BAM executable downloaded. regardless of changing directory

----------------

Determining latest version of BaM exe...

Error: Could not find a BaM exe for your OS in the latest BaM release. Try providing the url of the BaM exe to download through the `url=` argument
Traceback:

1. stop(mess, call. = FALSE)
2. .handleSimpleError(function (cnd) 
 . {
 .     watcher$capture_plot_and_output()
 .     cnd <- sanitize_call(cnd)
 .     watcher$push(cnd)
 .     switch(on_error, continue = invokeRestart("eval_continue"), 
 .         stop = invokeRestart("eval_stop"), error = NULL)
 . }, "Could not find a BaM exe for your OS in the latest BaM release. Try providing the url of the BaM exe to download through the `url=` argument", 
 .     base::quote(NULL))

But MAC os isnt expected to use exe. also is there an executable for mac?

[benRenard]

Unfortunately no, there is no pre-built executable for macOS because nobody in the development team owns a mac, and it seems impossible to build it using GitHub actions (see ticket #20 ).

The good news is that you should be able to compile it yourself. I just updated BaM's README to describe the procedure.

Once this is done you may put the executable wherever you like on your machine (choose a directory where you have writing permissions) and then you can set the path to the executable by using the function RBaM::setPathToBaM()

Please let us know if this works.