[Bioc-devel] biocLite - can it produce better error messages?

[Wolfgang Huber]

Hi all,

a collaborator of mine tried to install a package from the 1.9 release 
earlier this morning, getting the error messages below. Now I am not 
getting these, apparently this may have been a transient outage of the 
bioconductor repository.

My suggestion is that the "getBioC" function would produce a more 
helpful error message. While it is true that dependency '‘pkgname’' is 
not available, if the deeper problem is that no connection can be 
established with the repository server, many users might be less 
confused if this were what they'd be told...

  Best wishes
   Wolfgang

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: quick question - BioC install
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:30:35 +0100
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To: huber at ebi.ac.uk


> source('http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R')
> biocLite('cellHTS')
Running getBioC version 0.1.8 with R version 2.4.1
Running biocinstall version 1.9.9 with R version 2.4.1
Your version of R requires version 1.9 of Bioconductor.
dependency '‘cellHTS’' is not available

> biocLite('prada')
Running getBioC version 0.1.8 with R version 2.4.1
Running biocinstall version 1.9.9 with R version 2.4.1
Your version of R requires version 1.9 of Bioconductor.
dependency '‘prada’' is not available

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