[Bioc-devel] Windows binaries for the new release?

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at uw.edu
Wed Apr 26 17:23:13 CEST 2017


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Martin Morgan <
martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:

> On 04/26/2017 10:34 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Martin Morgan
>> <martin.morgan at roswellpark.org <mailto:martin.morgan at roswellpark.org>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 04/26/2017 10:00 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:
>>
>>         I see the binaries on the respective web pages, but biocLite
>>         seems not to:
>>
>>
>>     I'm not 100% sure but can you try again in a new R session? I think
>>     you have a cached version of the repository index.
>>
>>
>> At a command prompt, using --vanilla:
>>
>> C:\Users\jmacdon> C:\Progra~1\R\R-3.4.0\bin\x64\R --vanilla
>>
>> R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21) -- "You Stupid Darkness"
>> Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (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.
>>
>> library(BiocInstaller)
>>>
>> Bioconductor version 3.5 (BiocInstaller 1.26.0), ?biocLite for help
>>
>>> biocLite()
>>>
>> BioC_mirror: https://bioconductor.org
>> Using Bioconductor 3.5 (BiocInstaller 1.26.0), R 3.4.0 (2017-04-21).
>> installation path not writeable, unable to update packages: foreign
>> Old packages: 'Biobase', 'IRanges', 'S4Vectors'
>> Update all/some/none? [a/s/n]: a
>>
>>   There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
>>            binary source needs_compilation
>> Biobase    2.35.1 2.36.0              TRUE
>> IRanges    2.9.19 2.10.0              TRUE
>> S4Vectors 0.13.17 0.14.0              TRUE
>>
>> Do you want to install from sources the packages which need compilation?
>> y/n:
>>
>> Is there a way to remove the cache manually? I have already uninstalled
>> and re-installed BiocInstaller.
>>
>
>   contrib.url(BiocInstaller::biocinstallRepos())
>
> should be pointing to
>
>   https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.5/bioc/bin/windows/contrib
>
> and
>
>   https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.5/bioc/bin/windows/contrib
> /3.4/PACKAGES
>
> has the current information
>
> Package: Biobase
> Version: 2.36.0
> Depends: R (>= 2.10), BiocGenerics (>= 0.3.2), utils
> Imports: methods
> Suggests: tools, tkWidgets, ALL, RUnit, golubEsets
> License: Artistic-2.0
> Archs: i386, x64
>
> as well as in R
>
> > fl = "https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.5/bioc/bin/windows/cont
> rib/3.4/PACKAGES.rds"
> > xx = readRDS(url(fl))
> > xx['Biobase', , drop=FALSE]        Package   Version  Priority
> Biobase "Biobase" "2.36.0" NA
>         Depends                                       Imports   LinkingTo
> Biobase "R (>= 2.10), BiocGenerics (>= 0.3.2), utils" "methods" NA
>         Suggests                                   Enhances License
> Biobase "tools, tkWidgets, ALL, RUnit, golubEsets" NA       "Artistic-2.0"
>         License_is_FOSS License_restricts_use OS_type Archs       MD5sum
> Biobase NA              NA                    NA      "i386, x64" NA
>
> should be pointing to the current .zip files.
>
> biocLite() delegates to available.packages(), which should be checking the
> session temporary directory and, since you're in a new session, retrieving
> the rds file above. You could
>
>   debug(available.packages)
>
> and try and figure out where the issue is?
>
> FWIW with a new R installation I could not reproduce your problem.


OK. If it's just weirdness on my end I don't really care. I was just
concerned that this would be a problem for regular end users.

Thanks,

Jim



>
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
> Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> Running under: Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 (build 9600)
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.26.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Martin
>>
>>
>>             biocLite()
>>
>>         BioC_mirror: https://bioconductor.org
>>         Using Bioconductor 3.5 (BiocInstaller 1.26.0), R 3.4.0
>> (2017-04-21).
>>         installation path not writeable, unable to update packages:
>> foreign
>>         Old packages: 'AnnotationDbi', 'Biobase', 'BiocGenerics',
>> 'biomaRt',
>>         'IRanges',
>>           'S4Vectors'
>>         Update all/some/none? [a/s/n]: a
>>
>>           There are binary versions available but the source versions
>>         are later:
>>                        binary source needs_compilation
>>         AnnotationDbi  1.37.4 1.38.0             FALSE
>>         Biobase        2.35.1 2.36.0              TRUE
>>         BiocGenerics   0.21.3 0.22.0             FALSE
>>         biomaRt       2.31.10 2.32.0             FALSE
>>         IRanges        2.9.19 2.10.0              TRUE
>>         S4Vectors     0.13.17 0.14.0              TRUE
>>
>>         Do you want to install from sources the packages which need
>>         compilation?
>>         y/n:
>>
>>             sessionInfo()
>>
>>         R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
>>         Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>         Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 14393)
>>
>>         Matrix products: default
>>
>>         locale:
>>         [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>         [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>         [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>         [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>         [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>>         attached base packages:
>>         [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>  base
>>
>>         other attached packages:
>>         [1] BiocInstaller_1.26.0
>>
>>         loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>         [1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0
>>
>>
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>> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
>> Biostatistician
>> University of Washington
>> Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
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>> Seattle WA 98105-6099
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Biostatistician
University of Washington
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
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Seattle WA 98105-6099

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