A post on the Bioconductor mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/2009-May/027700.html
suggests that install.packages now references .Rprofile (?), whereas in R-2-8 it did not. Is this intentional? The example is, in .Rprofile library(utils) install.packages("Biobase", repos="http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc") then starting R from the command line results in repeated downloads of Biobase mtmor...@mm:~/tmp> R --quiet trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/src/contrib/Biobase_2.4.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1973533 bytes (1.9 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1.9 Mb trying URL 'http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/src/contrib/Biobase_2.4.1.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1973533 bytes (1.9 Mb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 1.9 Mb ^C Execution halted > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.0 Patched (2009-05-20 r48588) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Martin -- Martin Morgan Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel