[BioC] biocLite breaks when `svn rev` is "unknown"

[Martin Morgan]

On 10/22/2011 08:33 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> This is what I get:
>
>> biocLite("TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19")
> Error in if (svnRev<  55733) .stop("R-2.14 r55733 or newer required.") :
>    missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>
> My `svn rev` in Rversion() is "unknown". No idea why.  Maybe it's just
> really old and the computer forgot? Maybe a warning should be issued, and
> then continue?

Thanks Michael -- this should be fixed in BiocInstaller version 1.1.29; 
because the error is in your installed package, you'll (currently) need 
to remove.packages("BiocInstaller") before 
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R"); biocLite(character()) or 
whatever.

Martin

>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 Under development (unstable) (--)
> Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.1.28 rtracklayer_1.13.19  RCurl_1.5-0
> [4] bitops_1.0-4.1
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] BSgenome_1.21.3      Biostrings_2.21.11   GenomicRanges_1.5.49
> [4] IRanges_1.11.27      XML_3.2-0            tools_2.14.0
> [7] zlibbioc_0.1.6
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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