[Bioc-devel] Removed packages and package landing pages

[Sean Davis]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpages at fredhutch.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would be great if the search tool on the upper right corner could be
> used for that. Unfortunately right now if I search for DnaseR it
> returns many invalid links.
>

Yes, if the landing pages were generated to include information for removed
packages, that would be a useful addition.

Sean



>
> Thanks,
> H.
>
> On 08/06/2015 07:22 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:
>
>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> For your first question, you can always look at the release announcement,
>> all the way at the bottom: http://bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_1_release/
>> .
>> That's a bit hands-on, as you sometimes have to go back several releases
>> to
>> see when it got removed, so hopefully Dan has a more reasonable approach.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Sean Davis <seandavi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Dan.
>>>
>>> A user asked me a question about the DnaseR package.  It appears to have
>>> been removed from Bioc?  Where would I find that out?  What is the
>>> behavior
>>> of the release/devel pages if a package has been previously removed?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sean
>>>
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