[BioC] biocLite script and R 2.3

[Seth Falcon]

Hi Wolfgang, all,

On 19 Oct 2005, huber at ebi.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi Seth,
>
> I get:
>
>> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>> biocLite()
>
> Running bioCLite version 0.1  with R version  2.3.0
> Errore in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
> impossibile aprire la connessione
> Inoltre: Warning message:
> apertura non riuscita: stato HTTP '404 Not Found'
>
>
> apparently because
> "http://www.bioconductor.org/scripts/2.3/biocinstall.R" doesn't
> (yet) exist. Any ETA or RAS (recommended alternative solutions)?

ETA: Tomorrow
RAS: appropriate use of install.packages.  A preliminary bioc 1.8
(devel) repository of source packages is available here:
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/1.8/src/contrib

> This question has already come up a couple of times from keen bioC
> users around here, so I am posting it on the list.

Thanks, it was on the list and just not quite ready.  

Best Wishes,

+ seth