[BioC] alias in .Rd and bundles
Robert Gentleman
rgentlem@jimmy.harvard.edu
Tue, 2 Apr 2002 18:18:23 -0500
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:48:53PM -0800, Anthony Rossini wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Sandrine Dudoit wrote:
>
>
> > 2. I've installed the bundle Bioconductor. Is there a way to load all
> > packages with one command in R, instead of going library(package1),
> > library(package2), etc.?
>
> Do we need a dummy library, Bioconductor, with
>
> .First.lib <- function() {
> while (library in bioconductor.libraries)
> require(library)
> }
>
> It appears that there are numerous subsets that might be of interest, and might not be worth power-loading everything (but it might be worth some kind of "topic/activity" based loader of the above, i.e. Bioconductor.topic("cDNA"), Bioconductor.topic("affy"), or similar activity-sets.
>
> Comments?
These all seem reasonable, don't forget that if a package has a
requires for something else that something else gets loaded with the
package.
For those of us working off of cvs there is an install target for
the makefile in madman/Rpacks...
>
> best,
> -tony
>
>
>
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