[BioC] biocLite, ask=FALSE bug

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Hi Kasper,

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just used biocLite in R-2.13 (.2 patched) with ask=FALSE and got an error:
>
> Using R version 2.13.2, biocinstall version 2.8.4.
> Installing Bioconductor version 2.8 packages:
> [1] "fdrtool"
> Please wait...
>
> Error in download.file(url, destfile, method, mode = "wb", ...) :
>  unused argument(s) (ask = FALSE)
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,  :
>  download of package 'fdrtool' failed
>
> Seems like the ... argument is passed to download.file.  Not sure if
> this is a "bug" but biocLite used to accept ask=FALSE.

Are you sure? I looked in older versions, and it doesn't seem like we
ever has an "ask" argument. Incidentally, install.packages() doesn't
either, and it passes its ... to download.file() which also doesn't
have an "ask" argument.

> Btw, it works
> in 2.14, so it might not be worth fixing.
>

Dan


> Kasper
>
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