On 12/15/2008 10:58 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
I knew that (but forgot to include it in my statement of the question).
Thanks for pointing it out.
Is there any way to convince the selection box (or its developers) to
include the version information that is already available?
The selection box is adamant that it will only display one thing.
The developers would like to have a grid display component, and then
would be happy to display more information about each package, but are
unlikely to write one, due to competing priorities. If you wanted to
contribute one...
Duncan Murdoch
Kevin
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 12/15/2008 10:31 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
Hi,
Terry Therneau's question about package development reminded me of a
different issue. I maintain several packages along with a repository
for them at "http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/OOMPA/". Several
people are working on adding features or testing the packages. So, I
often want to have both the latest official release and the currently
testable build of the package available in the repository. I tried
putting both versions in the same repository, but this leads to a
problem for some of the testers, who are not familiar with the
intricacies of building packages. (Thus, I cannot just tell them to
get the source tarball and compile it; they will have no clue as to
what I am talking about. And their Windows machines will not have the
required tools installed in any event.)
The underlying problem is that when you run the command
> install.packages(repos="http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/OOMPA")
inside the R Windows GUI, the selection box that appears only lists
the name of the package, _not_ the version number. Thus, the testers
cannot tell which of two packages with the same name should be installed.
Is there any way around this problem other than to maintain two
different repositories?
available.packages() reports version numbers, e.g.
available.packages(contrib.url("http://bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/OOMPA"))
You'll need to write a user interface to make use of this.
Duncan Murdoch
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