[BioC] how to update a bioconductor package

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Thu Oct 6 17:42:41 CEST 2011


On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:31 AM, wang peter <wng.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
> i tried
> updata.packages("Biostings")
> but it is still 2.13.1
> the new one is 2.14.1,
>
> so i tried
>
> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite("Biostrings")
>
> Using R version 2.13.1, biocinstall version 2.8.4.
> Installing Bioconductor version 2.8 packages:
> [1] "Biostrings"
> Please wait...
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Users/shangao/Documents/R/win-library/2.13’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning: package 'Biostrings' is in use and will not be installed

Yes.  Just restart R and before loading any packages use:

source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("Biostrings")

If this doesn't work for you, be sure to include the output of
sessionInfo() when you write back to the list.

Sean



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