I am having the same old methylKit installation problem.
I am using a Bioconductor 3.0v on a 3.1.3v R in a Linux-OS. I encountered the following error when I ran the installation code:
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> install.packages("methylKit_0.9.2.tar.gz",repos=NULL,type="source")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/shriya/Documents/R/win-library/3.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'methylKit' ...
** R
** data
** exec
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error : objects 'DataFrame', 'Rle', 'elementMetadata', 'elementMetadata<-' are not exported by 'namespace:IRanges'
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'methylKit'
* removing 'C:/Users/shriya/Documents/R/win-library/3.2/methylKit'
Warning messages:
1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-32~1.0/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\shriya\Documents\R\win-library\3.2" "methylKit_0.9.2.tar.gz"' had status 1
2: In install.packages("methylKit_0.9.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source") :
installation of package ‘methylKit_0.9.2.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status