[Bioc-devel] using devel bug

[Vincent Carey]

FWIW I encountered a similar situation a couple of weeks ago.  I should
have said something, I guess.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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"
> > Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >
> > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> >
> >   Natural language support but running in an English locale
> >
> > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> > Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
> >
> > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> > Type 'q()' to quit R.
> >
> > ****************************
> > ** Hopkins NEWS and Notes **
> > ****************************
> >
> > News and updates for the R installation will be sent to bit-help, so
> > consider subscribing
> >
> > 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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