[BioC] Biocinstall

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Vincent Carey
<stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> set ask=F in the call?  an exclude pattern might be nice to have.

Yes, setting ask=FALSE will not prompt at all.

The y/n/c prompt comes from R's update.packages(), so we can't change it.

Dan

>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:26 AM, James W. MacDonald
> <jmacdon at med.umich.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I like the new version of biocLite() where it asks if I want to update
>> outdated package versions. However, if I have say 30 outdated packages,
>> hitting 'y' 30 times is going to get annoying.
>>
>> Can it be changed to something like
>>
>> Available updates for 'affy' 'AnnotationDbi' 'Biostrings' etc
>> Update all (y/N/c hit 'N' to choose by package)?
>>
>> And hitting N then sends the end user into the existing process?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
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