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[Bioc-devel] using devel bug

On 03/10/2015 01:01 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
IS_UPGRADEABLE (also useDevel()) is meant to key off the version of 
BiocInstaller, under the assumption that BiocInstaller is correct for the 
version of R in use. Each release is accompanied by version bumps in 
end-of-life, devel-to-release, and new-devel branches of BiocInstaller, so (a) 
you'll be told BiocInstaller is out-of-date and (b) the current devel 
IS_UPGRADEABLE=FALSE will become IS_UPGRADEABLE=TRUE and you'll be able to upgrade.

It isn't really simpler to think in terms of the version of R in use, either, 
e.g., BiocInstaller under R-3.1 was initially (Bioc version 2.15) not 
upgradeable, until our Bioc 3.0 came out.

BiocInstaller could / should detect that it was running on the wrong version of 
R for Kasper's and Henrik's case.

Martin