[Bioc-devel] biocLite() ready for BioC devel downloads (R 2.4 required)

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Hi,

But of course, I'm going to check in the changes in
to /madman/installScripts too.
Cheers,

H.

Quoting Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org>:

> Wolfgang Huber <huber at ebi.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Hi Herve,
> >
> > can you please also check it in to /madman/installScripts (or to some
> > other documented place). I like to have the line
> >
> > source("/home/huber/madman/installScripts/biocLite.R")
> >
> > in my .Rprofile to avoid typing the tedious URL all the time.
> 
> Here is my solution: put the following in ~/.Rprofile
> 
>     tryCatch({
>         source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>     }, error=function() NULL)
> 
> This way, if I'm not connected to the net, I don't get an error.
> Since you can't use biocLite without net connectivity anyhow, I don't
> see a real advantage of sourcing from local disk instead.  And there
> is a disadvantage in going from svn: it may not correspond with what
> is currently posted on the website and therefore may not work as
> expected.
> 
> + seth
> 
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