[Bioc-devel] Better instructions for updating BioC version

[Marcel Ramos]

Hi Maddy,

Thank you for raising this issue. It is on our ToDo list.

The proposed change is to use `require` instead of `requireNamespace`
based on previous discussion
[on 
Slack](https://community-bioc.slack.com/archives/C020U8LU59P/p1635436159004400)
which would notify users with old R installations.

Best regards,

Marcel

On 1/21/22 5:11 PM, Maddy Griswold wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have received multiple inquiries about our package and documentation not lining up. We host documentation on a separate website that corresponds to the most recent Bioconductor release. This causes a headache for some users that aren't able to download the most recent version of the package from Bioconductor because they haven't updated their installer as the instructions and the actual code don't match. Is it possible to update the documentation on BioConductor to explicitly show that after a release, users have to update their BiocManager? This information is buried in the documentation but seems like it should be front and center.
>
> The current code on each package page looks like this:
> if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
> install.packages("BiocManager")
>
> BiocManager::install("SpatialDecon")
>
> But could this line of code be added before the actual installation of the package to ensure the most up to date package is installed?  BiocManager::install(version = "3.14").
>
> So each package's install instructions would look like this and the version number would be updated with every release:
> if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
> install.packages("BiocManager")
>
> BiocManager::install(version = "3.14")
> BiocManager::install("SpatialDecon")
>
> Thanks,
> Maddy Griswold
>
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Marcel Ramos
Bioconductor Core Team
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dept. of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
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