[Bioc-devel] adapting 'biocinstall' to my institute's needs

[Florian Hahne]

Hi Paul,
biocinstall is sourced from the Bioconductor Webpage by these lines of
code in biocLite:

  choppedRVer <- gsub("(\\w+).(\\w+).(\\w+)", "\\1.\\2", thisRVer)
  scriptUrl <- paste("http://www.bioconductor.org/", "scripts/",
choppedRVer, "/biocinstall.R", sep="")
  source(scriptUrl)

choppedRVer eveluates to something like 2.3 (depending on your R
version) so the comple URL could for example be:
http://www.bioconductor.org/scripts/2.3/biocinstall.R

Hope this helps,

Florian



Paul Shannon schrieb:
> I hope this email is not misplaced.  I searched the archives and did not
> find the information I am looking for.
>
> I have a number of R-shy users.  One big hurdle they face is installing
> packages.  'getBioC' and 'biocLite'  seem like just the right approach.
>
> I want to emulate this approach by creating a local version of that  
> function which
> my users can easily source and execute.  They will then be able to  
> load (or update)
> all the R and bioc packages they need, along with local packages and  
> code we write.
>
> Examining the source for getBioC leads me to 'biocinstall' but -- sorry
> if this is obvious, and I just missed it -- I can't find the source
> of that function, to study, learn from, and adapt.
>
> Could someone clue me in?  I welcome any comments on the overall plan
> as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
>   - Paul
>
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