[BioC] problem with package version of rat2302 1.8.5

[Seth Falcon]

On 28 Sep 2005, tliu at fhcrc.org wrote:

>
> Hi Mark,
>
> The function "getPkgVers" will read the version information from a
> file called "liblisting.Rda" in your library paths.  The function
> "sessionInfo" will find out which packages are loaded and then read
> the version information from their DESCRIPTION files directly.
>
> I think the information in your liblisting.Rda file is not
> up-to-dated (for some reason) so that the results from these two
> functions are different.

Right, geetPkgVers is from reposTools.  There is a function
syncLocalLibList that will update the liblisting.Rda file Ting
mentioned.  

At this point, I recommend using sessionInfo() to determine what
version of a package you actually have installed.

Thanks for the report.

+ seth