[BioC] biocLite

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
> <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Kasper,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
>>> <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It seems that Rcompression (from omegahat) is not available through
>>>> biocLite anymore (or, at least I believe it used to be available).  I
>>>> may be missing something here, but didn't we use to be able to get
>>>> omegahat packages through biocLite.  Or is this something specific to
>>>> Rcompression?
>>>>
>>>
>>> What version of R and what OS are you using?
>>>
>>> I just did a quick check on Linux and Windows, R-2.13 and R-2.14, and
>>> biocinstallRepos() (the function that tells biocLite() where to look)
>>> does not include the Omegahat repository on any of them.
>>
>> I have been checking 2.13 and devel for Linux and OS X.  Just to be
>> clear: I see the same as you (that omegahat is not included).  I seem
>> to recall that omegahat used to be included, but I am probably
>> completely wrong.
>
> We have not  included Omegahat as long as anyone here can remember.
> We do point to our own extra repository which includes some Omegahat
> packages, but  Rcompression has never been in that repository, at
> least since BioC 1.8.
>
> Some Omegahat packages, such as XML, are available in CRAN, which
> could account for this, but it doesn't look like Rcompression is one
> of them.

Thanks; I was clearly wrong.  Sorry for the noise.

Kasper