[BioC] Repository for Bioconductor annotation packages

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Keith,

Keith Satterley wrote:
> James,
> 
> Further to where one can find the annotation data. I notice that when I 
> install R2.3.1 on my Windows computer, the Select Repositories option 
> shows 4 sites, CRAN, CRAN(extras), Bioconductor and Omegahat. If I add 
> the following line:
> 
> BioCMData    BiocMetaData 
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/data/annotation    FALSE    TRUE    
> TRUE    FALSE
> 
> (This is one long line)
> to the repositories file in my R-2.3.1\etc subdirectory, I then have an 
> extra repository listed, called BiocMetaData and I can then (provided I 
> select it as a repository) see all the annotation data packages listed 
> when I use Install Packages from the Packages Menu of the RGui.
> Can this repository option be added automatically to the Repositories 
> file when R is installed

I don't know about adding it when R is installed, but you could 
certainly write some R code that you could source() right after an 
install to add that repository.

Best,

Jim


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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
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