[BioC] alternate /tmp for Bioconductor install

Robert Citek rwcitek at alum.calberkeley.org
Tue May 24 15:20:51 CEST 2005


On May 23, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Seth Falcon wrote:
> getBioC has been updated: When using R 2.1.x, it accepts a destdir
> argument, similar to install.packages and friends, that will be used
> as the path to write downloaded packages to.
>
> This provides an alternative to setting TMPDIR.
>
> We'll be working on an improvement to allow a "resume" after an
> interupted installation.

Thanks, Seth.  Is there any way I (and others) can help out with the  
development of BioC?

Regards,
- Robert



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