Is there a way in the current website scheme to link to a permanent URL for released packages that would give a page like: http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/html/Biobase.html but is not tagged to the 1.8 release? Something like: http://bioconductor.org/packages/CURRENT/bioc/html/Biobase.html It is a minor point, but it does make citing somewhat simpler. Thanks, Sean
[Bioc-devel] permanent address for packages
2 messages · Sean Davis, Seth Falcon
Hi Sean, This is actually a tiny bit more complicated than one might imagine... Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> writes:
Is there a way in the current website scheme to link to a permanent URL for released packages that would give a page like: http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/bioc/html/Biobase.html but is not tagged to the 1.8 release? Something like: http://bioconductor.org/packages/CURRENT/bioc/html/Biobase.html
The following URL, implemented as a symlink to the current release is already available: http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/Biobase.html
It is a minor point, but it does make citing somewhat simpler.
It seems important that the version number of a package be part of what gets cited. The problem with the 'release' symlink is that a given package may not make it into a particular release in the future. Or perhaps a package will merge with another. So it may not be permanent. I would discourage the use of such URLs going directly to the package because of these reasons. + seth