[Bioc-devel] biocLite “no packages in repository” error

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Never mind,

The problem is that you are using the Mavericks build which is not yet supported. Please use the Snow Leopard build of R.

See this link for more information:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-April/005497.html

Dan


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> To: "Ashley Ng" <ang at wehi.EDU.AU>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 7:26:11 AM
> Subject: Re: biocLite “no packages in repository” error
> 
> Hi Ashley,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ashley Ng" <ang at wehi.EDU.AU>
> > To: dtenenba at fhcrc.org
> > Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 3:04:23 AM
> > Subject: biocLite “no packages in repository” error
> > 
> > Hi Dan
> > 
> > I seem to getting a “no packages in repository” biocLite error
> > after
> > installing R 3.10 and trying to upgrade packages:
> > 
> > > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> > Bioconductor version 2.14 (BiocInstaller 1.13.3), ?biocLite for
> > help
> > > biocLite()
> > Error: 'no packages in repository (no internet connection?)' while
> > trying
> >   http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.14/bioc
> > 
> > > sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit)
> > 
> > locale:
> > [1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8
> > 
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> >   base
> > 
> > other attached packages:
> > [1] BiocInstaller_1.13.3
> > 
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_3.1.0
> > > 
> > 
> 
> What is the result of the following command:
> 
> library(BiocInstaller)
> biocinstallRepos()
> 
> 
> ?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Ashley Ng
> > 
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> > Haematology Division
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> > Melbourne, Australia
> > 
> > 
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