[Bioc-devel] Tracking Current release (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/current redirect to http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.14)
On Wed, 07 May 2014, Martin Morgan wrote:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/release goes to the current release 'biocViews', with packages under release/ being the current release versions. http://bioconductor.org/bioc-version is probably what you'll end up using (though I believe it's hand curated),
Cool; http://bioconductor.org/bioc-version is good enough for my purposes; thanks.
Of course this is a valid concern and we can work toward a more secure approach.
I figure just using SSL is probably good enough; there are better methods, but SSL is easy and fast.
Perhaps I could take the opportunity to ask a naive question about debian binary distributions of R. [...] In particular, are they unversioned, /usr/lib/R/library etc, as opposed to say /usr/lib/R-3.1/library ?
They're unversioned.
I'm asking because a number of users seem to show up with say R-3.1 reporting a mix of R-3.1 and R-3.0.2 packages, usually to ill effect; this is not necessarily likely for user-installed packages, because the system directories won't be writeable and R will prompt with a versioned directory ~/R/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-library/3.1 as the location to install libraries.
All Debian R packages currently require at least the version of R that they were built against to be installed. However, there is currently a problem where you can have a package installed which was built against an old version of R which is incompatible with a newer R version. [For example, as happened when R 3.0 released.] The latter problem needs to be fixed; unfortunately, it blocks on available time to coordinate the fix and get it deployed everywhere in Debian. In general, though, if someone is running versions of packages specific to the Debian release they are running, they should be OK.
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