[Bioc-devel] r+w permissions in release branches
Hi Julian what if two Bioc packages require different version of the ?same? CRAN package? AfaIu, the infrastructure is not designed to deal with multiple versions of a package. Nor would I as a user expect to have less-than-the-most recent versions of CRAN packages in my library just because some other package says so? Just to throw in another, and probably silly suggestion: the Bioconductor repository could keep ?snapshots? of CRAN packages compatible with each release, but they would have to be name-mangled in some way. The potential for confusion is enormous. Best wishes Wolfgang Il giorno 22 Apr 2014, alle ore 16:14, Julian Gehring <julian.gehring at embl.de> ha scritto:
Hi, For a "more general solution" one could think of specifying the version of critical packages in the 'description' file and having a 'biocLite' function that installs the specific version from CRAN. See e.g. the 'devtools::install_version' function for installing older packages from the CRAN archive. This may have drawbacks for binary or compiled packages though. Best wishes Julian On 22.04.2014 15:31, Alejandro Reyes wrote:
However, I don't know if this could be a "general solution for all users" since when installing a package via biocLite, the latest version of the cran package is installed regardless the R/BiocInstaller version you are using. Users would need to download the versions of the dependencies that they need and install them manually.
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