[BioC] update annotations without updating bioconductor

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Robert,

It's always possible to mix and match package versions - a significant 
portion of the noise on this list consists of people admonishing posters 
to use biocLite() rather than downloading and installing things.

So you can always download and install the updated annotation packages, 
and they may well work OK (I don't think Marc made any changes that are 
not backward-compatible). However, you are on your own if you have any 
odd results. Caveat emptor.

Best,

Jim



On 11/5/2010 9:18 AM, Robert M. Flight wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm wondering if it is possible to update annotation packages without
> updating the core bioconductor itself. For example, if I wanted to
> update various "org.*.db" annotation packages, GO.db, and KEGG.db
> without updating R and Bioconductor, how would I do that? I do plan to
> update R and Bioconductor, but the system I am using and some of the
> packages I am using took a lot to get working correctly, and I would
> like to enable updated annotations while taking my time to upgrade R
> and Bioconductor, without worrying too much about breaking something.
>
> Currently using R 2.11 and Bioconductor 2.6.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Robert
>
> Robert M. Flight, Ph.D.
> University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory
> University of Louisville
> Louisville, KY
>
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> EM robert.flight at louisville.edu
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