[BioC] environment variable or system variable for BioC version

[Seth Falcon]

"D.Enrique ESCOBAR ESPINOZA" <escobarebio at yahoo.com> writes:

> is there a way to find wich bioconductor version I m using in my
> server like:
> R.Version()
> or
> R.version.string
> or
> getRversion()
> ?

At present, no.  Bioconductor releases are matched to R releases:

R      BioC
2.2.x  1.7
2.3.x  1.8
2.4.x  1.9

But that relies upon the user installing BioC packages in the
recommended fashion.  It is possible to have a mix (it is not
recommended and packages may not work).

You can determine the versions of BioC packages you have by loading
the packages in an R session using library() and then calling
sessionInfo().  You can compare the version numbers to those posted in
the BioC release repositories (there are code-based ways to retrieve
this same info, see available.packages):

http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/1.9/bioc/  (current release)

Best Wishes,

+ seth