[BioC] alternate /tmp for Bioconductor install

[Seth Falcon]

Robert Citek <rwcitek at alum.calberkeley.org> writes:
> I used TMPDIR this time and it's working great.  I pointed it to a  
> nice large partition.

Glad to hear it.

> As for the version, I did an 'apt-get install r-base libxml2-dev g77  
> atlas3-base-dev' which installed R v2.1.0.  So, I assume I'm now  
> installing BioC 1.6.  How can I tell?  That is, how can I display  
> what version of BioC is installed?

Well, there isn't a global Bioc version that you get query.  The best
thing to do is to compare the version numbers of a few packages
against what is on the Bioconductor website.

For example, 

> library(Biobase)
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-29, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 

attached base packages:
[1] "tools"     "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"    
[7] "datasets"  "base"     

other attached packages:
 Biobase 
"1.5.12" 

And then verify the version here:
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/stable/src/contrib/html/

> BTW, for notes on what I'm doing:
>
>   http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?BioConductor

That looks quite interesting.  If you get this working I would love to
try it out!

+ seth