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

Stian Lågstad stianlagstad at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 08:05:53 CEST 2017


Thank you Martin. Are the core packages being kept as Github mirrors?

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:21 AM, Martin Morgan <
martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:

> 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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