[Bioc-devel] widgettools download problem w/ getBioC

[Seth Falcon]

Cyrus Harmon <cyrus at bobobeach.com> writes:

> Is it reasonable to point a 2.2 installation at the 2.1 repository
> or is that just crazy?

It isn't crazy, but we make no claims that it will work.


>> That depends on how you installed it initially.  I like to install
>> into a separate package library directory.  Then I can nuke that to
>> uninstall.
>
> I suppose most of the folks on bioc-dev probably know what this means  
> and how to do this, but can you suggest how to do this?

On unix-a-likes:

shell:

  mkdir bioc1.6
  export R_LIBS=`pwd`/bioc1.6
  ## you could have other items in your R_LIBS path if you want

R:

  mypkglib = "/path/to/bioc1.6"
  ## if it is first in R_LIBS, you can get it like this:
  ## mypkglib = .libPaths()[1]
  source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")
  getBioC(destdir=mypkglib)

+ seth

PS: getBioC.R is now a new and improved script that detects your R
version and sources an appropriate install script.