[BioC] how to check BioConductor version?

Henrik Bengtsson hb at stat.berkeley.edu
Thu Aug 10 20:11:43 CEST 2006


On 8/10/06, Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> writes:
> > 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).
>
> Mixing BioC devel with R-release is for advanced users and is not
> supported.  If you do this often, you could edit your own copy of
> biocLite to make it more convenient.
>
> > In other words, I would use the version of R to infer the version of
> > Bioc.
>
> only if you have only used biocLite for installing packages.  Won't be
> reliable if you've manually downloaded things.

Oopps, I missed a "not" there.  Good catch. /H
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