On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Fischer, Bernd < b.fisc...@dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> > During the production process of the paper we want to link to the > accompanying > BioC package that is in devel, but not yet in release. Before the first > release, the > link (e.g. www.bioconductor.org/<packagename>) should go to the devel > version > (maybe with an additional warning that it is only available in devel), > before the > first release of the package and should go to release afterwards. > I understand the appeal of this, but decoupling publications from the actual, exact versions they discuss or use seems like a relatively large step backwards in terms of reproducibility. At the very least, I think there is some nuance here that warrants careful consideration before we adopt a single-silently-changing-link-per-package paradigm. ~G > > Bernd > > > > On 23.03.2015, at 11:45, Sean Davis <seand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Just so we don't lose the thoughts that have come before, here is a link > to > > a similar proposal from last year. > > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2014-February/005292.html > > > > Sean > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Wolfgang Huber <whu...@embl.de> wrote: > > > >> I wonder whether it’d possible to have the website understand URLs like > >> http://www.bioconductor.org/<pkgname> > >> > >> This could resolve to > >> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html > >> or > >> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/<pkgname>.html > >> depending on whether the package was yet released. > >> > >> This could be handy in papers or grants that mention packages. > >> > >> Wolfgang > >> > >> > >> ---- > >> Wolfgang Huber > >> Principal Investigator, EMBL Senior Scientist > >> Genome Biology Unit > >> European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) > >> Heidelberg, Germany > >> > >> T +49-6221-3878823 > >> wolfgang.hu...@embl.de > >> http://www.huber.embl.de > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > -- Gabriel Becker, Ph.D Computational Biologist Genentech Research [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
