[BioC] useDevel() not working

[Michael Muratet]

On May 29, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Sean Davis wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Michael Muratet
> <mmuratet at hudsonalpha.org> wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> I have installed R 2.15 with the intent of installing the devel  
>> version of
>> BioC. Following the instructions on
>> http://bioconductor.org/developers/useDevel/, I get
>>
>>> library(BiocInstaller)
>>> useDevel()
>> Error: could not find function "useDevel"
>>
>> What version of BiocInstaller is required?
>
> source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R')
>
> Then:
>
> help(useDevel)
>
> Hope that helps.
Hi Sean

That does not work by itself, but I took the next logical step and ran  
biocLite(). Now useDevel is defined. Now I can redefine R_LIBS_USER  
and install the devel version into a separate directory.

Thanks

Mike

>
> Sean

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