[BioC] how to check BioConductor version?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On 8/10/06, Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> Jianping Jin <jjin at email.unc.edu> writes:
>
> > Many thanks Seth! That script helped a lot.
> >
> > One more question. After installing a new version of R, for example
> > 2.3.1, the command biocLite() should let you install the default
> > subset of packages listed in the new release (BC v. 1.8) that are
> > built with the newly installed R, shouldn't it?
>
> Yes, that's the idea.

But not always what you want ;)  I find myself having to install Bioc
devel on R stable sometimes (since I don't always have access to R
devel - lagging behind when the R versions get bumped up).  In other
words, I would use the version of R to infer the version of Bioc.

/H

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