[Rd] R/BioConductor error (PR#7282)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) See the R FAQ.  R-bugs is not for questions.  PLEASE don't abuse our 
system like this.

2) R-bugs is not for reports on Bioconductor.

3) The error message you got is mentioned in the top section of the NEWS 
file for R 2.0.0, namely

    o	Packages must have been re-installed for this version, and
	library() will enforce this.

4) www.bioconductor.org says that the version (1.5) for R 2.0.0 will be 
available on October 25th.  It could be more explicit about this!
Meanwhile its standard source repository is unavailable, but it looks like 
they need to do some work for users of `OS2000'.

If you want BioC now, read its FAQ and install the version of R it tells 
you to (rw1090, for some reason, but I believe rw1091 would be a better 
choice).


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 hdeshmuk at gmu.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: H Deshmukh
> Version: 2.0
No such version!  There is 2.0.0.
> OS: 2000
No such OS!  There is Windows 2000.
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.174.206.239)
> 
> 
> Can somebody tell me what is it that i am doing wrong,i was not sure whether to
> post BioConductor error here or not.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> >source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R") 
> > getBioC(libName = "all") 
> Running getBioC version 1.2.65....
> If you encounter problems, first make sure that
> you are running the latest version of getBioC()
> which can be found at: www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R
> 
> Please direct any concerns or questions to bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch.
> 
> 
> You are downloading all of the Bioconductor packages and any dependencies.
> Depending on your system this will be about 90-95 packages and be roughly 200MB
> in size.
> 
> Are you sure that you want to do this? [y/n] y
> Loading required package: reposTools 
> Error in library(package, character.only = TRUE, logical = TRUE, warn.conflicts
> = warn.conflicts,  : 
>         'reposTools' is not a valid package -- installed < 2.0.0?

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