
On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Seth Falcon wrote:

> mark garey <garey@biostat.ucsf.edu> writes:
>
>> greetings all.
>>
>> i have checked the GMANE archive where i found a related
>> solution at http://www.isrec.isb-sib.ch/~sengstag/bioc_mirror.html.
>> an excellent resource, but here is my problem.
>>
>> i need to set up and maintain a local Bioconductor repository on a
>> system where no outbound http protocols are allowed and maintenance
>> for such a repository is restricted to an interactive node within a
>> research
>> cluster ( so no fetching of remote files ).
>>
>> my question is can getBioc.R ( the other scripts ) be modified to
>> point to a local path where
>> a Bioc package repository has been installed? that is, can it deal
>> with a file:/ type URL?
>
> I believe so.  The biocLite/getBioc scripts are wrappers around R's
> install.packages function.  I have used install.packages on a local
> repository using file:// style URLs.
>
> + seth

hi seth,

indeed - i just got this to work; i understood that the biocLite/getBioC
scripts were wrappers but also needed to edit biocinstall.R with the
correct path to my repository.

thanks!

mark+

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