[Bioc-devel] BiocInstaller

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/06/2012 06:34 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> For an (older) version of R-devel, with BiocInstaller 1.5.12, I did
> the following
>
> I updated R-devel, to be current as of today.
>
> I ran biocLite("BiocUpgrade") which updated BiocInstaller to 1.8.1.
> Since 1.8.1 is what (as I understand it) identifies Bioc 2.11, I ran
> useDevel(TRUE), which banged out with an error (see below).

Thanks Kasper; a work-around is, in a new R session,

   remove.packages("BiocInstaller")
   source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")

which should install BiocInstaller 1.9.*. We'll work on a fix...

Martin

>
> Kasper
>
> sleipner:~/> R-devel
>
> R Under development (unstable) (2012-10-06 r60887) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"
> Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0 (64-bit)
>
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>
>    Natural language support but running in an English locale
>
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>
> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>
>> library(BiocInstaller)
> BiocInstaller version 1.8.1, ?biocLite for help
>> useDevel(TRUE)
> Error: 'devel' version requires a more recent R
>
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