[BioC] Mirror configuration to install from local files with getBioC/biocLite

[Thierry Sengstag]

Dear all.

I have written some instructions to setup a BioConductor mirror
and adapt getBioC/biocLite/biocinstall installation scripts such
that they access the local copies of packages instead of the
bioconductor web site.

The instructions can be found here:
http://www.isrec.isb-sib.ch/~sengstag/bioc_mirror.html

For short, there are harcoded paths in the installation scripts
that can be easily replaced if the mirror directory structure
reproduces that of the original bioconductor site.

In the long term a solution in which the mirror location could
be specified in the installation scripts would certainly be better.
I didn't follow that way as it would have required heavier
tailoring of the scripts, without guarantee that those changes
would remain compatible with future changes in the organization
of the bioconductor repository.

Hope you will find this useful.

Best regards,
Thierry

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Dr. Thierry Sengstag - Physicist
Bioinformatics Core Facility / NCCR Molecular Oncology
ISREC - Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
& SIB - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
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