[Bioc-devel] Install directly from the bioconductor git repo?

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/24/2017 04:16 PM, Stian Lågstad wrote:
> Can I install a package directly from a Bioconductor git repository? Like I
> can for example using devtools and a github repository like this:
> `install_git("git://github.com/hadley/stringr.git")`? What would be the
> link for a Bioconductor package?

install_git("https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/BiocGenerics.git")

seems to work.

> 
> Also, can I link directly to a source code file somehow? Like I can with
> the github repository:
> https://github.com/tidyverse/stringr/blob/master/R/case.R#L21

no, not at the moment, except of course for packages that are mirrored 
on github

   https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocGenerics/blob/master/DESCRIPTION#L4

Martin

> 
> Thank you.
> 


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