[Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yinming Jiao" <20907099 at zju.edu.cn>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Cc: "Yu, Guangchuang" <gcyu at connect.hku.hk>, "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 7:33:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches

> Dear Dan
> 
> It's great that we have notification on the package versions.  Many Thanks for
> your efforts on the maintanence.
> However, I have a question that why so many packages do not support R 3.2, and
> this problem is so tough that people have to reinstall other R version and
> roconstruct their pipeline upside down.
> Is there some actions to mail the authors and promote the updation of such
> packages?
> 


Which packages do not support R-3.2?

As far as I know the only packages that do not support R-3.2 are those that were introduced in Bioconductor 3.3 and later, and the supported solution for those is to upgrade to R-3.3. 

This is by design. Each version of Bioconductor is designed to work with a specific version of R. 


Dan



> Kind regards
> Yinming
>> -----原始邮件-----
>> 发件人: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
>> 发送时间: 2016年6月13日 星期一
>> 收件人: "Yu, Guangchuang" <gcyu at connect.hku.hk>
>> 抄送: bioc-devel <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
>> 主题: Re: [Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Yu, Guangchuang" <gcyu at connect.hku.hk>
>> > To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at r-project.org>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 1:44:12 AM
>> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches
>> 
>> > Dear all,
>> > 
>> > I found many peoples still using (and asking questions of) out-dated branch
>> > of Bioconductor packages that are no longer maintained.
>> > 
>> > I think it would be great to have a message notifying them when they are
>> > browsing the web page of out-dated branches, just like we have a message
>> > for devel branch.
>> > 
>> > For example, for BioC 3.2, a message like:
>> > 
>> > This is the BioC 3.2 version of XXX_pkg; for the current stable release
>> > version, see XXX_pkg_url.
>> > 
>> > would be helpful.
>> > 
>> 
>> We have implemented your suggestion for package landing pages for old versions
>> 2.8 through 3.2.
>> For technical reasons, it will take a little longer to implement this for
>> versions prior to 2.8.
>> 
>> We try to make sure that search engines do not index old package landing pages,
>> but
>> people sometimes still link to a particular version of a package landing page in
>> publications, etc.
>> As Martin points out, it's best to use the "short URL" of the package, for
>> example:
>> 
>> https://bioconductor.org/packages/a4/
>> 
>> If you click on that page and go to the bottom you will see a line saying
>> "Package Short Url". And then if you mouse over the short url it says
>> 
>> "Canonical url for use in publications, etc., will always redirect to current
>> release version (or devel if package is not in release yet).".
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > Best wishes,
>> > Guangchuang
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>> > Guangchuang Yu, PhD Candidate
>> > State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases
>> > School of Public Health
>> > The University of Hong Kong
>> > Hong Kong SAR, China
>> > www: https://guangchuangyu.github.io
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