[Bioc-devel] Package archives

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kasper Daniel Hansen" <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com>
> To: "jens timmerman" <jens.timmerman at ugent.be>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:28:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Package archives
> 
> I could be wrong, but I don't think older versions are kept.  That is
> user
> responsibility.  You can check out the code from svn though.
> 

Some older versions are kept, see the "Previous Versions" box at
http://bioconductor.org/install/

But there is no guarantee that a specific older version will be available.

Dan


> Technically, the stable release should be frozen, but we still allow
> bug
> fixes, so in practice there is some change.  This is unfortunate in
> terms
> of complete reproducibility.  If you want that, you really need to
> archive
> everything you download.
> 
> Best,
> Kasper
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:34 AM, jens timmerman
> <jens.timmerman at ugent.be>wrote:
> 
> > Dear list,
> >
> >
> > Could someone point me to where package archives are kept?
> >
> > I had downloaded a few tarballs from the website, and installed
> > them,
> > Now I wanted to reproduce this installation on a different machine,
> > but
> > I was unable to find the original tarball, since it was replaced by
> > a
> > newer version on the website.
> >
> > e.g. IRanges 1.20.5 is no longer available from [0], where I
> > originally
> > downloaded it.
> >
> > I tried looking for an archive of older versions of packages but
> > was
> > unable to find it, can someone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Regards
> > Jens Timmerman
> >
> >
> >
> > [0]
> >
> > http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.13/bioc/src/contrib/IRanges_1.20.5.tar.gz
> >
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