Dear Dan It's great that we have notification on the package versions. Many Thanks for your efforts on the maintanence. However, I have a question that why so many packages do not support R 3.2, and this problem is so tough that people have to reinstall other R version and roconstruct their pipeline upside down. Is there some actions to mail the authors and promote the updation of such packages?
Kind regards Yinming > -----原始邮件----- > 发件人: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org> > 发送时间: 2016年6月13日 星期一 > 收件人: "Yu, Guangchuang" <g...@connect.hku.hk> > 抄送: bioc-devel <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > 主题: Re: [Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Yu, Guangchuang" <g...@connect.hku.hk> > > To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 1:44:12 AM > > Subject: [Bioc-devel] notify out-dated branches > > > Dear all, > > > > I found many peoples still using (and asking questions of) out-dated branch > > of Bioconductor packages that are no longer maintained. > > > > I think it would be great to have a message notifying them when they are > > browsing the web page of out-dated branches, just like we have a message > > for devel branch. > > > > For example, for BioC 3.2, a message like: > > > > This is the BioC 3.2 version of XXX_pkg; for the current stable release > > version, see XXX_pkg_url. > > > > would be helpful. > > > > We have implemented your suggestion for package landing pages for old > versions 2.8 through 3.2. > For technical reasons, it will take a little longer to implement this for > versions prior to 2.8. > > We try to make sure that search engines do not index old package landing > pages, but > people sometimes still link to a particular version of a package landing page > in publications, etc. > As Martin points out, it's best to use the "short URL" of the package, for > example: > > https://bioconductor.org/packages/a4/ > > If you click on that page and go to the bottom you will see a line saying > "Package Short Url". And then if you mouse over the short url it says > > "Canonical url for use in publications, etc., will always redirect to current > release version (or devel if package is not in release yet).". > > Thanks, > Dan > > > > > Best wishes, > > Guangchuang > > -- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > > Guangchuang Yu, PhD Candidate > > State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases > > School of Public Health > > The University of Hong Kong > > Hong Kong SAR, China > > www: https://guangchuangyu.github.io > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > > > [[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 > -- _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
