[Bioc-devel] Tips for using R-2.15 with BioC 2.10 and 2.11

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Nicolas Delhomme <delhomme at embl.de> wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> I, indeed, have a different setup, therefore the script. I just pasted it unchanged.
>>
>> Now I'm curious about what your recommendations are for the current development version (2.11). I have read your previous email about this topic, but I still need some clarifications. Is it important wether we use R-2.16 or R-2.15 for developing packages for Bioc 2.11? Or do we have to use R-2.15 for Bioc 2.11 and switch to R-2.16 for Bioc 2.12 in six months?
>
> We recommend using R-2.15 for developing packages for BioC 2.11.
> After BioC 2.11 is released, you can switch to using R 2.16 (R-devel)
> for developing BioC 2.12 packages.
>
> We don't recommend using R-2.16 before then because it could introduce
> changes that will not be present in R-2.15, which is the R version
> that BioC 2.11 is intended to run with, and is what our build machines
> are running (for that matter, R-2.15 is also the R version that BioC
> 2.10 is intended to run with).

Just to be completely clear: you do recommend 2.15 patched, right?
Will the final version for Bioc 2.11 be the latest minor release of
R-2.15, released before Bioc 2.11.

Kasper


>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nico
>>
>> On 17 Apr 2012, at 18:36, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Robert Castelo <robert.castelo at upf.edu> wrote:
>>>> Dear Dan, and specially those using mac osx for developing packages,
>>>>
>>>> i've tried to follow the instructions below for Mac OSX, concretely
>>>>
>>>> On 04/03/2012 01:04 AM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello BioC Developers,
>>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Linux and Mac OS X, You can create bash aliases (called e.g. Rdevel
>>>>> and Rrelease) that will invoke the command line above. (Note that the
>>>>> "devel" in "Rdevel" refers not to the development version of R, but to
>>>>> that of Bioconductor; slightly confusing). Put the following in
>>>>> ~/.bash_profile:
>>>>>
>>>>> # Mac OS X
>>>>> alias Rdevel='R_LIBS_USER=~/Library/R/2.15-bioc-devel/library R'
>>>>> alias Rrelease='R_LIBS_USER=~/Library/R/2.15-bioc-release/library R'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i've created this ~/.bash_profile in my laptop running Mac OSX 10.6.8 and
>>>> when i start with
>>>>
>>>> $ Rdevel
>>>>
>>>> my .libPaths() always reports the release directory and never the devel
>>>> directory, i.e.,
>>>>
>>>>> .libPaths()
>>>> [1] "/Users/rcastelo/Library/R/2.15-bioc-release/library"
>>>> [2] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library"
>>>>
>>>> if i rename '~/Library/R/2.15-bioc-release' to 'tmp' or i comment the alias
>>>> line about the release in the .bash_profile (i.e., trying to force the
>>>> system to see only ~/Library/R/2.15-bioc-devel/library) i only get the
>>>> default path, i.e.,
>>>>
>>>>> .libPaths()
>>>> [1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/library"
>>>>
>>>> i've checked permissions and both directories
>>>> ~/Library/R/2.15-bioc-release/library and
>>>> ~/Library/R/2.15-bioc-devel/library are exactly the same in this regard
>>>> (drwxr-xr-x).
>>>>
>>>> can any Mac OSX user replicate this problem?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was having a similar problem until I realized that I hadn't created
>>> both directories (I had only created one of them). After I did that,
>>> my aliases worked just fine.
>>>
>>> Creating them in .bash_profile has also not been a problem for me.
>>>
>>> Nico, thanks for sharing your script, but if you are working with
>>> R-devel (2.16) I'm not sure you need it. R 2.16 will keep all its
>>> packages in a separate directory from 2.15 automatically. The
>>> R_LIBS_USER trick is intended for using R 2.15 with two different
>>> versions of Bioconductor.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>> if not, i guess i must be doing something wrong, but i have no clue what it
>>>> could be, any hint to a possible diagnostic/QC will be very much
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> robert.
>>>
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