[BioC] how to check BioConductor version?

[Sean Davis]

On 8/10/06 9:27 AM, "Jianping Jin" <jjin at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> We are running R-2.3.1/BioConductor on a Sun machine. I am wondering how I
> can check which version of BioConductor, 1.8 or 1.7 for example, was
> installed? Do I need to check package(s) of my  interest by
> packageDescription() and see what version of R this package was built with?

Probably the safest way to do this is to use:

 sessionInfo()

when you have the packages of interest loaded.  While bioconductor has
"releases", there is nothing to stop people from installing versions of
packages that were released earlier or later that those in a given
"release".  In other words, there is no way to check for "bioconductor
release version".  Instead, you should probably check for individual package
versions.

Sean