[Bioc-devel] A new way to manage side-by-side BioC release and Devel installs

2014-07-24 Thread Gabe Becker
Hey all, One of the things that has come up from the recent Release/Devel distinction thread on this list is that people don't consider there to be an easy way of handling both at the same time. I'd like to offer an alternative based on the switchr https://github.com/gmbecker/switchr package I'm

Re: [Bioc-devel] A new way to manage side-by-side BioC release and Devel installs

2014-07-24 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Gabe, Thanks for the heads up, sounds promising. Note that one major difficulty of switching between BioC release and devel is that between October and April it also requires to switch between R release and devel. How is that handled in switchr? Thanks, H. On 07/24/2014 08:42 AM, Gabe

Re: [Bioc-devel] A new way to manage side-by-side BioC release and Devel installs

2014-07-24 Thread Gabe Becker
Herve, It doesn't handle that, so it is a time-saving approximation akin to devtools, rather than an exact solution. I recognize and agree with the reasons that Bioc devel targets R devel (sometimes); the question becomes how often BioC devel will actually fail if you use an R with a slightly