[BioC] Bug in biocLite?

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Pan Du <dupan.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan
>
> I just tried to install packages using "biocLite" for my Mac computer. When
> I ran biocLite(), it returns the following error:
>
> 'BiocInstaller' package not in repository
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc, using
> 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc'
> Error: 'BiocInstaller' package not in repository
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc
>
> After I traced the error, I found it is because "contrib.url" function
> returns a non-existing web link:
>
> contrib.url("http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc")
> "http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/3.0"
>
>

You need to update to the release version of R 3.0.0.
The contrib.url has changed.

Dan


> Here is my sessionInfo():
>
> R Under development (unstable) (2013-02-12 r61904)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.10.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.0.0
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pan