[Bioc-devel] r+w permissions in release branches

[Julian Gehring]

Hi,

For a "more general solution" one could think of specifying the version 
of critical packages in the 'description' file and having a 'biocLite' 
function that installs the specific version from CRAN.  See e.g. the 
'devtools::install_version' function for installing older packages from 
the CRAN archive.  This may have drawbacks for binary or compiled 
packages though.

Best wishes
Julian


On 22.04.2014 15:31, Alejandro Reyes wrote:
>
> However, I don't know if this could be a "general solution for all
> users" since when installing a package via
> biocLite,  the latest version of the cran package is installed
> regardless the R/BiocInstaller version you are using.  Users
> would need to download the versions of the dependencies that they need
> and install them manually.