[Bioc-devel] using devel bug

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Ok, I had to manually remove the BiocInstaller package, restart R and then
run biocLite and I am now on BiocInstaller 1.17.5 ~ Bioconductor 3.0

Clearly, there is some issue with the IS_UPGRADEABLE variable which (I
guess) is initialized at install time.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using R-devel, I get
>
> R-devel
>
> R Under development (unstable) (2015-03-09 r67969) -- "Unsuffered
> Consequences"
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> An automatic user library has been created (in case it did not already
> exist) as
>     ~/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.2
> install.packages and R CMD INSTALL will automatically install to this
> directory, so there is no need for a -l or a lib argument to these
> functions.
>
> Loading required package: utils
>   none
> > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.16.1), ?biocLite for help
>
>
> Why?  In the past it would auto-detect my R version and automatically use
> Bioc devel.  Also, I get
>
> > useDevel(TRUE)
> Error: 'devel' version requires a more recent R
>
> Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit
>
> 1: useDevel(TRUE)
> 2: .stop("'devel' version requires a more recent R")
>
> Best,
> Kasper
>
>

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