[Bioc-devel] Logolas package broken for R (3.4) users

[kushal kumar dey]

Thanks so much Valerie and Kasper for the helpful comments...I will look
into the issue as you suggested.

Best

Kushal

On Wednesday, 29 August 2018, Obenchain, Valerie <
Valerie.Obenchain using roswellpark.org> wrote:

> Kasper is right, you can only update code in the current release (Bioc
> 3.7) or devel (Bioc 3.8). Sorry I didn't read your question carefully
> enough. You could, however, use the AMI suggested below to attempt to
> reproduce the reported error.
>
> This is the last build report for Bioc 3.6 and Logolas is not broken:
>
>   https://www.bioconductor.org/checkResults/3.6/bioc-20180412/
>
> If you can reproduce the error (with the AMI) you probably did not have a
> comprehensive set of tests which is why the build report is green. If you
> can't reproduce the error, the people reporting problems may be using
> mismatched R/Bioconductor package versions. The output of their
> sessionInfo() should be informative.
>
> Valerie
>
>
>
> On 08/29/2018 09:45 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
> I think the "correct" answer to this, is that it is impossible. Old
> releases are locked.
>
> The way to discover such things is to have appropriate test functions
> which will signal an error if things break.
>
> Best,
> Kasper
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:17 PM Obenchain, Valerie <Valerie.Obenchain@
> roswellpark.org> wrote:
>
>> You could use an AMI with R 3.4 installed. See the 'AMI IDs' section:
>>
>> https://www.bioconductor.org/help/bioconductor-cloud-ami/#ami_ids
>>
>> Valerie
>>
>>
>> On 08/27/2018 11:48 AM, kushal kumar dey wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just found based on user reports that the old version of my package
>> Logolas for R 3.4 and Bioc 3.6 is broken. It does install fine but the
>> main
>> function does not run. Everything seems to be fine however for R 3.5 and
>> Bioc 3.7. I would like to produce either an error message if someone < R
>> 3.5 tries to install Logolas, or to mend the old version. Can you please
>> let me know what is the procedure for either of these cases?
>>
>> Thanks so much.
>>
>> Kushal
>>
>>
>>
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