[Bioc-devel] Updated biocLite -- please try!

[Martin Morgan]

Hi BiocDevelopers --

As mentioned previously, we have revised how biocLite works. Please try

    source("http://bioconductor.org/scratch-repos/biocLite.R")

and then installing your favorite package

   biocLite("MyFavoritePackage")

The 'source()' command will download, install (first time only!) and 
load the 'BiocInstaller' package.

biocLite does behave differently. It'll check for out-of-date packages 
and ask, after installing MyFavoritePackage, whether you'd like to 
update them. With no arguments, biocLite() installs just Biobase, 
IRanges, and AnnotationDbi. biocLite(character()) will look for 
out-of-date packages to update. And ?biocLite will provide a help page(!).

The revised behavior should only occur in the 'devel' version of R, 
R-2.13 should behave as before.

Any feedback most welcome.

Martin
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