[Bioc-devel] package not available (for R version 3.2.3)

[THEVENOT Etienne 207099]

Dear Bioc team,

A friend of mine had the following trouble to install the biosigner package on R 3.2.3.

I do not understand why the package would require a dedicated version of R (in particular >3.2.3) except that it uses S4 methods, and if/how I have to specify an R version within the package (note that the ropls package, which biosigner depends upon, seemed to require also a recent version of R).

I thank you very much in advance for your answer.

Kind Regards,

Etienne.


> source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Bioconductor version 3.2 (BiocInstaller 1.20.3), ?biocLite for help
A new version of Bioconductor is available after installing the most recent
  version of R; see http://bioconductor.org/install
> biocLite("biosigner")
BioC_mirror: https://bioconductor.org
Using Bioconductor 3.2 (BiocInstaller 1.20.3), R 3.2.3 (2015-12-10).
Installing package(s) 'biosigner'
Old packages: 'AnnotationDbi', 'ape', 'BH', 'boot', 'car', 'caret', 'cluster',
  'CORElearn', 'curl', 'DBI', 'devtools', 'digest', 'dplyr', 'evaluate',
  'FactoMineR', 'formatR', 'ggplot2', 'git2r', 'gridExtra', 'gtable', 'highr',
  'Hmisc', 'htmltools', 'httr', 'IRanges', 'jsonlite', 'knitr', 'latticeExtra',
  'lazyeval', 'lme4', 'maps', 'Matrix', 'memoise', 'mgcv', 'mime', 'mnormt',
  'msm', 'mtbls2', 'mzR', 'nlme', 'nnet', 'phangorn', 'phytools', 'plotrix',
  'plyr', 'quantreg', 'R6', 'Rcpp', 'RcppEigen', 'RCurl', 'rmarkdown',
  'roxygen2', 'rstudioapi', 'rversions', 'S4Vectors', 'scales',
  'scatterplot3d', 'stringi', 'survival', 'XML', 'xml2', 'xtable'
Update all/some/none? [a/s/n]: n
Warning message:
package 'biosigner' is not available (for R version 3.2.3)

When I updated my R version to the latest it worked. I'll check which version is used in biosigner. But unless there is a good reason to have to use R > 3.2.3, I would allow the package to install on older versions (people don't update R on their desktops so often). I think you need to set that up on the config files of the package that you upload to bioconductor.



Etienne Thévenot<http://etiennethevenot.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.html>
Computational metabolomics
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