[Bioc-devel] biocUpgrade Wrongly Infers R Version

[Dario Strbenac]

I can't upgrade BiocInstaller :

root at bioinfo:/home/dario/Documents# R

R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) -- "Full of Ingredients"
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Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

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> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.16.4), ?biocLite for help
A new version of Bioconductor is available after installing the most recent
  version of R; see http://bioconductor.org/install
> biocLite("BiocUpgrade")
Error: Bioconductor version 3.0 cannot be upgraded with R version 3.1.0
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.10

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.16.4

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.0

Strangely, 

dario at bioinfo:~/Documents$ sudo R
R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10) -- "Sock it to Me"
Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
dario at bioinfo:~/Documents$ which sudo R
/usr/bin/sudo
/usr/bin/R
dario at bioinfo:~/Documents$ su root
root at bioinfo:/home/dario/Documents# which R
/usr/bin/R
root at bioinfo:/home/dario/Documents# R
R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) -- "Full of Ingredients"
Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

Also, why does GO.db not appear in the build and check reports ? http://www.bioconductor.org/checkResults/release/bioc-LATEST/

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Dario Strbenac
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia