Message-ID: <17850.14586.667950.538343@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: 2007-01-26T17:23:06Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: [Bioc-devel] update packages not working
In-Reply-To: <m2sle3tzai.fsf@ziti.local>
>>>>> "Seth" == Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org>
>>>>> on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:18:13 -0800 writes:
Seth> Hi Mark,
Seth> "Kimpel, Mark William" <mkimpel at iupui.edu> writes:
>> I'm having difficulty auto-updating packages in R 2.5/BioC 2.0. R
>> packages update without problem, BioC packages result in following
>> error.
Seth> CRAN packages update because:
Seth> a) the CRAN URL is essentially hard-coded into R
Seth> b) CRAN packages, in general, have very few dependencies and those
Seth> that they have are all in the CRAN.
not quite (but almost, I agree),
e.g., there is at least one CRAN package that depends on BioC 'graph'.
[................]
Martin