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 developing. switchr is designed to allow seamless switching between distinct sets of installed packages. It also has build in support for the BioC release/devel distinction, like so: >* library(switchr)* > *switchTo(BiocDevel)* trying URL ' http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/bin/windows/contrib/3.1/BiocInstaller_1.15.5.zip ' Content type 'application/zip' length 109769 bytes (107 Kb) opened URL downloaded 107 Kb package 'BiocInstaller' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Switched to the 'BioC_3.0' computing environment. 31 packages are currently available. Packages installed in your site library ARE suppressed. To switch back to your previous environment type switchBack() >* BiocInstaller::biocVersion()* [1] '3.0' >* switchBack()* Reverted to the 'original' computing environment. 40 packages are currently available. Packages installed in your site library ARE NOT suppressed. To switch back to your previous environment type switchBack() >* BiocInstaller::biocVersion()* [1] '2.14' Note that this only works if you have an R version able to install the devel version of the BiocInstaller package, but that will be true of any solution using BioC Devel. I'm working on making the failure more graceful when this is not the case, and on writing/updating the documentation more generally. switchr is more widely useful than this, which I will be talking about publicly soon, but since it is so on-topic I figured I'd give this list a heads-up on this aspect of it. Please feel free to try switchr out, any feedback is appreciated. ~G -- Computational Biologist Genentech Research [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
