[R-SIG-Mac] Too many dependencies with BioConductor packages?

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Gad Abraham wrote:

[Some clipping]

> OK, so it installs all the Depends, Imports, Suggests, and Enhances.
>
> Maybe this should be mentioned somehow in the GUI (rename "install  
> dependencies"?). It's not too much of an issue for CRAN, but in  
> BioConductor there are large packages (10s of MB at least) which can  
> get downloaded needlessly but are only Suggested.


While this might not be "here" nor "there," it's certainly somewhere  
in between:

If you stick with the recommended way of installing bioconductor  
libraries, ie:

R> source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R')
R> biocLite('GOstats')

You'd likely circumvent this problem. GOstats is installed in my  
system, but most all of the extra packages you were pulling down are  
not.

-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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