Hi Ivan,

Just look at the output of the source()

> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
BioC_mirror = http://bioconductor.org
Change using chooseBioCmirror().

Cheers

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Ivan Gregoretti <ivangreg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Great.
>
> Would you mind showing how you can update the packages using any of
> those mirrors?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ivan
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba@fhcrc.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Ivan Gregoretti <ivangreg@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello Dan,
> >>
> >> Updating Bioconductor devel packages as instructed in
> >>
> >> http://bioconductor.org/install/
> >>
> >> usually leads to stalled downloads when it retrieves large packages.
> >> The BSgenome packages are notorious for this.
> >>
> >> Can you or anybody recommend a solution that does not involve manually
> >> downloading the tar balls one by one? (Perhaps the is a mirror for
> >> devel.)
> >
> > Hi Ivan,
> >
> > There are mirrors for release and devel here:
> >
> > http://bioconductor.org/about/mirrors/
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Ivan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba@fhcrc.org>
> wrote:
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