[Bioc-devel] Dependency issue

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "t kuilman" <t.kuilman at nki.nl>
> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 11:30:14 PM
> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Dependency issue
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have tested whether our new package CopywriteR could be installed,
> but surprisingly got the message that it could not be installed
> under R 3.1.2:
> 
> Warning message:
> package ‘CopywriteR’ is not available (for R version 3.1.2)
> 
> All the dependencies of CopywriteR have R >= 3.1.0 or these depend on
> earlier versions of R. Can anyone tell me whether this dependency is
> imposed by Bioconductor or what would be the explanation for this?
> (I did note that during the BiocCheck checks I got the
> recommendation to update the R version dependency to 3.2 but I would
> rather have it backward compatible with older versions of R too)
> 

Your package was accepted into Bioconductor 3.1. It will not work in earlier versions.

Bioconductor packages have many complex interdependencies and mixing and matching packages from different versions invariably causes problems. 

3.1 is now the release version and it works with R-3.2, the current release version of R.

Dan



> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.16.2
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.1.2
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Thomas Kuilman, PhD
> Department of Molecular Oncology
> Netherlands Cancer Institute
> 1066 CX Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> 
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