[Bioc-devel] How to install a package from bioC devel?

Go to the bioconductor web page, download the package, and all the 
dependencies if required and save them onto a local disk. Then in 
Linux/UNIX/Mac do 'R CMD INSTALL ThePackage.tar.gz' outside of the R 
session and in Windows within an R session select in menu 'Install 
from a local Zip file'. However, please pay attention that those 
packages might be unsupported, not fully tested and even buggy - they 
are the development versions. So if you then encounter problems, be 
warned.

Best,
Oleg

cstrato wrote:

Dear Vincent

Thank you, but this is not what I want. I would like to install the 
package from BioC devel in R-2.6.1.

In: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2008-January/001454.html
Seth mentioned that it is possible to use install.packages for this 
purpose, but I get the error mentioned.
Did I make a mistake or is the URL wrong?

Best regards
Christian

Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:

biocLite will install the devel version of the package
if invoked from R devel (2.7.0 at this time)

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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, cstrato wrote:

 

Dear all,

How can a user install a package from BioC devel?

I have tried the following:

1. biocLite:

 >

biocLite("http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/src/contrib/xps", 

type="source")
Running biocinstall version 2.1.8 with R version 2.6.1
Your version of R requires version 2.1 of Bioconductor.
Warning in install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies =
dependencies,  :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/Users/rabbitus/Library/R/library'
Warning message:
In install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, repos = repos, dependencies =
dependencies,  :
  package
'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/src/contrib/xps' is not
available


2. install.package from BioC devel repository:

 >

install.packages("xps_0.4.1.tar.gz",repos="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/src/contrib/") 

Warning in install.packages("xps_0.4.1.tar.gz", repos =
"http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/src/contrib/") :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/Users/rabbitus/Library/R/library'
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/src/contrib/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.6 

Warning message:
package 'xps_0.4.1.tar.gz' is not available


3. download the package and use install.package locally:

 > 

install.packages("/Volumes/CoreData/CRAN/xps_0.4.1.tar.gz",repos=NULL)
Warning in install.packages("/Volumes/CoreData/CRAN/xps_0.4.1.tar.gz",
repos = NULL) :
  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/Users/rabbitus/Library/R/library'
Error in gzfile(file, "r") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
In gzfile(file, "r") :
  cannot open compressed file 'xps_0.4.1.tar.gz/DESCRIPTION'

As you see, none of the methods that I have tried works.
Is the URL of the BioC devel repository correct?
Why does the local installation not work?

The only installation method that works is:
R CMD INSTALL -l ~/Library/R/library xps_0.4.1.tar.gz

 > sessionInfo()

R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
i386-apple-darwin8.10.1

locale:
C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] rcompgen_0.1-17 tools_2.6.1

Best regards
Christian
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