[Bioc-devel] CRAN package with Bioconductor dependencies

[Martin Morgan]

On 03/02/2015 03:18 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>
> I had never realised that CRAN packages that depended on Bioc packages
> could actually not be installed with install.packages without setting a
> repo or using BiocInstaller::bioLite. Here is an example using a fresh R
> installation
>
>    http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MSeasy/index.html
>    Depends: amap, clValid, cluster, fpc, mzR, xcms
>
> $ docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-base R
>
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>> install.packages("MSeasy")
> Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning: dependencies ‘mzR’, ‘xcms’ are not available
> also installing the dependencies ‘modeltools’, ‘DEoptimR’, ‘mclust’, ‘flexmix’, ‘prabclus’, ‘diptest’, ‘mvtnorm’, ‘robustbase’, ‘kernlab’, ‘trimcluster’, ‘amap’, ‘clValid’, ‘fpc’
>
> [...]
>
> ERROR: dependencies ‘mzR’, ‘xcms’ are not available for package ‘MSeasy’
> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/MSeasy’
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
> 	‘/tmp/Rtmp4T40ub/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("MSeasy") :
>    installation of package ‘MSeasy’ had non-zero exit status
>
> This does sound really counter-intuitive. Am I missing anything?

biocLite("MSeasy") is easy and works.

Otherwise yes, to install a Bioconductor package using install.packages() 
requires that you've selected (via chooseBioCmirror() or options("BioC_mirror")) 
or provided (e.g., install.packages("MSeasy", 
repos=BiocInstaller::biocinstallRepos()) a Bioconductor repository.

Since the mirror choices provided by chooseBioCmirror() are hard-wired, users of 
R3.0.0 + chooseBioCmirror() will get an older version of Biocondcutor than users 
of 3.0.0 + biocLite().

Martin

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